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Scotland - Personal Licence Refresher Training - the fall out begins!
We have previously reported and warned that Scottish personal licence holders must undertake their mandatory refresher training within 5 years of the grant of their licence and then evidence that training to the relevant Licensing Board within 3 m...
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Powers of Entry Code to come into force in 2015
We previously reported in June that the Government was seeking to introduce the Powers of Entry Code 'this year'. However, the Home Office has now announced that it will not be introduced until 2015. With regards implications for Licensing A...
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...
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...