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Government Relents To Allow Wales to Benefit From World Cup - but must still apply
The Home Office has altered its stance to allow Welsh pubs to open later to screen England’s World Cup matches. Initially The Government had refused to extend the blanket policy which applied in England. This always seemed to us an odd polic...
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NUS launch new Responsible Drinking Accreditation
The NUS has launched a new pilot programme that seeks to create a social norm of responsible alcohol consumption by students. With funding from the Home Office, and working with seven pilot universities and one control, the NUS aim to develop a n...
Prohibiting the sale of alcohol at a price below the total of duty paid plus VAT - Live from 28 May 2014
As you will probably be now aware, this new Mandatory Condition goes live on 28 May and already we are seeing councils writing to individual premises alerting them to the changes. We have previously updated on the detail for which see here - LINK...
Scotland - Significant changes to the Licensing Act (Scotland) 2005 tabled
The Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 14 May 2014 and seeks to make numerous and significant changes to the Licensing Act (Scotland) 2005 as follows: Amending the licensing objective relating to children to also include ...
Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill receives Royal Assent
Further to our previous news on this matter we can confirm the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill received Royal Assent on 14 May 2014 and has now become an Act. Subject to Parliamentary procedure, it is expected that the Act will come into...
Gambling - Commission Issues Consolidated LCCP
Following recent publicised changes announced by the Gambling Commission to various aspects of the LCCP The Gambling Commission have now published Licence conditions and codes of practice (consolidated May 2014) to incorporate all of the amendm...
New mandatory condition (sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT) implementation - Update
As previously reported, the new mandatory condition seeking to ban the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT was delayed beyond its original implementation date. The relevant Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 201...