Personal Licence

05 Apr 2017

Immigration Act 2016 - and licensing - Guidance issued

We refer to our previous news on the impact of the new Immigration Act 2016 on the licensing process. The Home Office has just issued Guidance on the impact, application and enforcement of these provisions which can be found here.  The Guid...

29 Mar 2017

House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report imminently due!

The report of House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 is due to be published next Tuesday – 4 April. To remind - this House of Lords Select Committee has been conducting post-legislative scrutiny of the Licensing Act, afte...

16 Mar 2017

Licensing - new application forms are coming

The Licensing Act 2003 (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (411/2017) have been laid before Parliament today. These Regulations will serve to update and amend various licensing application forms – some 20 in all - to take account of...

24 Nov 2016

DCMS Entertainment Licensing Statistics in the year to 31 March 2016

DCMS have just released the entertainment licensing statistics for England and Wales in the year to 31 March 2016. They can be found here 'Entertainment Licensing 2016: Statistical Release - November 2016' and also include statistics by region. T...

28 Oct 2016

Scotland - Liquor Licensing Statistics 2015 -16 released

Every year the Scottish Government releases liquor licensing statistics and those for 2015 -16 have just been issued and can be found here: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubLiquor/LiquLic201516  The figures a...

21 Oct 2016

Duty to declare Personal Licence - A reminder

On the 18th October Wrexham.com published an article which highlights the legal requirement for Personal Licence Holders to disclose the existence of their personal licence to a the Court when charged with a relevant offence. Section 128 of Licen...