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Licensing Act 2003 - Amendments to Application forms
The Licensing Act 2003 (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 will come into force on 21st March 2013 in order to amend the application forms for: premises licence variations; premises licence minor variations; and club premises ce...
Scotland - 5 year Refresher training launched
The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 requires all Personal Licence holders to submit evidence of top-up training to their issuing Licensing Board at the midpoint (5 years) of the life of the personal licence. Yesterday, we attended the launch ...
DCMS - Live Music Act Guidance
Last week, the DCMS has recently published a useful summary of the legal status of live music following the introduction of the Live Music Act 2012. This activity has now been deregulated in a range of circumstances from whi...
Basic good housekeeping always important!
It can be the easiest things which are overlooked! The recent successful prosecution of and resultant fine imposed on a Bristol area licensee over a series of ‘minor’ licensing transgressions reinforces the need for on-going and...
HMRC Update on VAT for Betting, Gaming and Lotteries.
Following on in part due to the change in Duty on gaming (and other) machines, HMRC has issued an updated notice to explain how VAT applies to machine games and more generally to betting and gaming aswell as bingo and lotteries. T...
Minor Variations - Procedure - Reminder
Just a reminder and a heads up that minor variations do require advertisement on site for the requisite period of 10 working days (white, not blue paper!). We are hearing of at least one Authority who - if the notice is not displayed appr...