Licensing
Prohibiting the sale of alcohol at a price below the total of duty paid plus VAT - Live from 28 May 2014
As you will probably be now aware, this new Mandatory Condition goes live on 28 May and already we are seeing councils writing to individual premises alerting them to the changes. We have previously updated on the detail for which see here - LINK...
New mandatory condition (sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT) implementation - Update
As previously reported, the new mandatory condition seeking to ban the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT was delayed beyond its original implementation date. The relevant Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 201...
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World Cup extensions - important reminder
With under 7 weeks to go to the World Cup, a reminder that: The proposed Government relaxation of licensing hours only applies in England (not Wales or Scotland) and to matches England actually play in so if (as the optimists amongst us hope) Eng...
Second Late Night Levy attempt for Milton Keynes?
In October last year, Milton Keynes Council rejected a proposal to adopt a Late Night Levy with a late night supply period of 01:00 to 06:00. It has been reported that Thames Valley Police have launched a new proposal for Milton Keynes Council to...
Breaking News - Government response to consultation to relax licensing hours during FIFA World Cup
Following the short consultation on relaxing licensing hours for the World Cup, the Government has today published its response, which can be found here. In brief, the Government has concluded that England playing in the World Cup is an occasion ...
Relaxation of Licensing Hours - FIFA World Cup - Urgent update
This consultation closes at 23.45 tomorrow, 26th March, 2014. In accordance with the consultation methods of response, we have just filed a representation on behalf of one of our national clients by e-mail. The auto-response, which we have rec...
Duty plus VAT permitted price calculator updated
We have previously reported on the Government measure to ban of the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT. This is still set to be brought into effect by the introduction of a new mandatory licence condition on 6 April 2014 (see the dra...
'Primary Authority' to apply (in part) to Licensing Act 2003
In November 2013, we reported that ‘Primary Authority’ was to be extended to include fire safety (see our previous article here). As a reminder, ‘Primary Authority’ allows businesses to form a partnership with a single loca...