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Covid 19 - What you need to know - Impact On Pub Code Of National Lockdown #3
As with previous lockdowns a declaration, in identical terms and with the same effect as that entered into as agreed by the pub-owning businesses ('POBs') between March and June 2020 and 5th November to 2nd December has been issued. The declarati...
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Covid 19 - New Lockdown Regulations Published
Following the Prime Ministers announcement on Monday evening, the Regulations bringing into law the new lockdown have been published and come into force today. A copy of the Regulations can be found here. These regulations amend the existing Heal...
Covid 19 - £4.6 billion in new lockdown grants announced.
Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors are to receive a one-off grant worth up to £9,000, the Chancellor has announced. Chancellor announces one-off top up grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses worth up to...
Gambling - Ofcom rules on ITV competition investigation
On Monday (7th December) Ofcom confirmed the outcome of an investigation into ITV prize competitions which ran between 2016 and 2019. The investigation commenced after ITV discovered that between 2016 and 2019 a number of postal votes were not inc...
Age limit for playing the National lottery to rise to 18 in October 2021
The Government has pledged a "major and wide-ranging review" of the gambling industry, it will be canvassing views on the legislation in the form of a call for evidence, which will run for 16 weeks until the end of March 2021. In the meantime, th...
Judges dismiss HMRC Appeal against bar owner over “Super Juices”
Judgement has been given in favour of a bar owner in an appeal by HMRC over VAT payments for “Super Juices”. The Upper Tribunal of the Tax and Chancery Chamber have published their decision to dismiss the appeal by HMRC against the Fi...
COVID 19 - What you need to Know - Jersey Circuit Breaker
The Chief Minister John Le Fondre has announced that there will be a circuit breaker period in Jersey which will commence from 00:01 GMT on Friday the 4th December. The Chief Minister advised that there had been an increase in the R number to bet...