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Licensing - Northern Ireland
Off our patch – but briefly for those with Northern Ireland interests (actual or potential)… A new Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the NI Assembly earlier this week. It marks the first sta...
Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS) - reminder and update
We have commented on this AWRS scheme many times before. The scheme has been introduced by the Government to try and tackle alcohol fraud. If you sell alcohol to another business, the probability is that you should already have registe...
'Consultation on aides memoire for food law enforcement officers' - 'game keepers' guides
For those of you who are operator ‘poachers’, you may be interested in the Food Standards Agency (FSA) consultation below. New guidance to help food law enforcement officers assess approved premises is under review and the FSA are see...
Planning - Wandsworth Council 'to remove permitted development rights' from its pubs.
With thanks to Stephen Brooker (Walsingham Planning) who reports that the London Borough of Wandsworth is seeking to introduce an Article 4 direction to almost wholly remove permitted development rights for pubs in the Borough. Using the ju...
House of Lords - Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - update
Further to our previous news on this Committee ('HofL Licensing Committee - call for evidence issued'), please note that: The deadline for submission of written evidence has now expired – we have already filed a submission of evidence on th...
TV licensing - and the BBC iPlayer - important changes in force today
The law changed today! All viewers who use the iPlayer to watch any BBC programmes must now be covered by a TV licence after new rules which have just come into force. Until now, iPlayer users only needed a licence if they were using the s...