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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...
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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...
PASS - to be re-launched
The Proof of Age Standard Scheme (otherwise known as PASS) has been around for a number of years but in recent times has been subject to some criticism. Take up of the cards by young people has dropped, with 18 to 25 year olds preferring to rely u...
Scotland - victory for Sky in football screening copyright case
It has been reported that the Premises Licence Holder and Premises Manager of a Glasgow pub have been fined for screening Sky sports to customers without the proper authorisation from Sky. The successful claim made by Sky was for breach of an inte...
Scotland - Minimum Unit Pricing heads to Europe
The now increasingly lengthy saga of the attempts by The Scottish Government to introduce a Minimum Unit Price for alcohol has taken its next step. The Government in Scotland first introduced legislation concerning the issue two years ago but thi...
Local Authorities Wide Discretion confirmed... again!
On the 27th March we reported the outcome of a Judicial Review Application by Operators of Sexual Entertainment Venues (SEV) in Leeds, Bean Leisure and Ruby May, which upheld Leeds' decision not to renew the SEV licence of the Applicants and affir...