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House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report imminently due!
The report of House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 is due to be published next Tuesday – 4 April. To remind - this House of Lords Select Committee has been conducting post-legislative scrutiny of the Licensing Act, afte...
Gloucester City Council postpone Late Night Levy decision
A meeting scheduled this week regarding Late night Levy Proposals, has been postponed until the 24th July 2017. The Council indicated that it had received a number of consultation responses requesting a Business Improvement District (BID) t...
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Gambling - 4th Money Laundering Directive
The Treasury has recently released their response to their public consultation relating to the European 4th Money Laundering Directive. Under the existing Money Laundering Regulation, only holders of a casino operating licence are subject to the r...
Licensing - new application forms are coming
The Licensing Act 2003 (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (411/2017) have been laid before Parliament today. These Regulations will serve to update and amend various licensing application forms – some 20 in all - to take account of...
Gambling - Changes to Operating licence fees
We have previously advised on proposed changes to the structure of Gambling Commission fees for Operating Licences. These proposals have now been finalised and on 6th April new regulations will come into force which will alter the regime for Oper...
Gender pay gap reporting requirements - be aware
A bit off our usual area but as it will affect many operators within the leisure and licensed sector we are highlighting this new requirement. By 4 April 2018 all employers with 250 employees or more must publish a gender pay gap report on their ...
Hackney - Late Night Levy - update
Further to our previous news on this, Hackney Council has now launched its consultation the adoption of a Late Night Levy (LNL). The consultation runs until 7 May 2017 and seeks views on proposals to introduce a LNL on premises serving alcohol be...
Alcohol licensing: a guide for public health teams issued
Public Health England has produced a guide to health teams to ‘make sure that licensing policy and applications consider the health and wellbeing of local communities’. The guidance is intended to inform on how directors of publi...