Personal Licence

05 Mar 2015

Deregulation Bill enters final stages

The Deregulation Bill completed its  third reading in the House of Lords last night (4th March 2015). As we have been reporting, this Bill is of particular significance to the licensed trade as it includes provision for abolishing Personal Li...

12 Feb 2015

Personal licences renewal arrangements - latest.

It is rather like watching paint dry! As previously reported, the relevant House of Lords  Committee sat on 3 and 5 February and most recently on 11 February, but did not apparently consider or comment on the proposals within the Deregulatio...

06 Jan 2015

Personal Licence renewal form - now in force

The regulations for interim personal licence renewal arrangements have now officially come into force. Accordingly, the new personal licence renewal application form can be used going forward and an MS Word copy of the application is available fro...

18 Dec 2014

Scotland - Personal Licence Revocations - the race to surrender - now too late in Argyll and Bute!

It is being reported now that Argyll and Bute Licensing Board has revoked 385 personal licences for the sale of alcoholic liquor across the area because the licence-holders in question had failed to show that they had undergone refresher training ...

16 Dec 2014

Personal licences renewal arrangements - progress?

The regulations for the interim personal licences renewal arrangements were laid in Parliament yesterday.  Subject to them being approved by Parliament, they will come into force on 5 January 2015, which means that the new application form fo...

09 Dec 2014

Scotland - Personal Licence Revocations - the race to surrender - and Glasgow!

Following our recent item on the ‘race to surrender' personal licences otherwise likely to be revoked for previous non-compliance with retraining requirements, Glasgow Licensing Board has just issued a very useful clarification of their posi...