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Research into Gambling Machine use in Betting Offices published by the Responsible Gambling Trust
The Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) has today published research into gaming machines in Betting Offices which it indicates “shows that it is possible to distinguish between problem and non-problem gambling behaviour”. The programme o...
Legislative Reform (Entertainment Licensing) Order 2014 - working draft of Government Guidance issued
The Legislative Reform (Entertainment Licensing) Order 2014 is still on course to be implemented in spring next year as mentioned in our previous article here. As would be expected, chapter 15 of the Government Guidance dealing with regulat...
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Personal Licence Renewals - Latest Update
The Government has today issued guidance to both Licensing Authorities and personal licence holders concerning the requirement or not to renew personal licences. We have previously updated on the "will you; won't you" question of renewal. Legisla...
Planning Use Class - When is a pub a pub?
A frequent point of discussion is within which Use Class the various operating formats of the leisure industry falls into. A traditional Public House is clearly Class A4 but today is there such a thing as a traditional Public House. In...
Gambling - FOBTs another development
We have recently received an update on developments in the ever changing news area of FOBT's (see our article of 4th November: ‘Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - The story continues'). This is an area where councils are also having their say. I...
National Counter Terrorism Awareness week - 24th November 2014 to 30th November 2014
Next week (24 - 30 November 2014) is National Counter terrorism week. This involves a number of different agencies and is aimed at deterring and detecting potential terrorist threats.We will all be aware of the terrorist threat having been raised...
Food Safety Offences - new sentencing guidelines consultation launched.
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales is a body which promotes greater consistency in sentencing, whilst maintaining the independence of the judiciary. The Council produces guidelines on sentencing for the judiciary and aims to increase pub...
Personal licence renewals - Home Office update
The Home Office has today updated on the developing issue of the need for certain personal licence holders to renew their personal licence next year, despite the Government intention that such renewals will eventually be scrapped (if and when the ...