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26 Jun 2014

Gambling - The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 Transitional arrangements for EEA and Whitelist operators published

The Statutory Instrument (2014 No.1641) The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2014 (the SI) has been laid before Parliament and is subject to negative resolution. This requires that either the Instrumen...

23 Jun 2014

Fire Safety - a timely reminder (again)

With recent news of another successful prosecution for ‘inadequate fire safety measures' in licensed premises, and the release of research from Fire UK which shows a high level of apparent ignorance on the part of licensees of the need to ha...

18 Jun 2014

Primary Authority

In November we reported that the Government was to take forward legislation (in England and Wales) to extend Primary Authority to fire safety with effect from 6 April 2014 ('Primary Authority to be extended to fire safety'). From the 6th April Pri...

18 Jun 2014

Community and Ancillary Sellers Notice (CAN)

The Deregulation Bill 2014 is currently being considered by Parliament. One of the proposals of the Bill is to reduce burdens of licensing on those who sell limited amounts of alcohol as part of a wider service i.e. ancillary sellers and for comm...

17 Jun 2014

Scotland - Perth & Kinross pubs get longer opening hours for the Ryder Cup

It is being reported that pubs in the Perth & Kinross Licensing Board area are to received additional trading hours for the duration of the Ryder Cup. The Ryder Cup a team golf tournament between the USA and Europe is being held at the Glenea...

17 Jun 2014

Scotland - 125ml Wine Measure

Further to our news item on 28th January, 2014 (link) – it is being reported that the number of premises now offering the smaller 125ml wine measure has almost doubled.  Special posters and tent cards to promote the availability of the ...