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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...
Scotland - Drink drive limit reduction effective today!
The legal alcohol limit reduces today in Scotland from 80mg to 50mg in every 100ml of blood, as we have previously reported - 'Scottish Government's intention to reduce the drink drive limit'. The legal limit in Scotland was 80mg of alcohol ...
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Scotland - Personal Licence Refresher Training Revocations - the race to surrender!
Further to our news on Wednesday that an estimated 10,000 people are being notified that their personal licences are being revoked for failing to meet legal needs over training ('Scotland - Personal Licence Refresher Training - the fall out begins...
Scotland - Dundee: Overprovision for the whole City...except the waterfront
Further to our previous article in April ('Dundee overprovision for the Whole City') which notified that the Dundee City Licensing Board had commenced a consultation exercise seeking views as to the areas within which an overprovision policy shoul...
Scotland - To Reduce Drink-Drive Limit
The issue of the drink-drive limit in Scotland appears to be back on the agenda. We first reported on this in September in our article 'Scotland - Drink driving limit consultation published'. The Scottish Government are hoping to introduce a ...
Scotland - 125ml Wine Measure
Further to our news item on 28th January, 2014 (link) – it is being reported that the number of premises now offering the smaller 125ml wine measure has almost doubled. Special posters and tent cards to promote the availability of the ...
Scotland - Significant changes to the Licensing Act (Scotland) 2005 tabled
The Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 14 May 2014 and seeks to make numerous and significant changes to the Licensing Act (Scotland) 2005 as follows: Amending the licensing objective relating to children to also include ...
Scotland - victory for Sky in football screening copyright case
It has been reported that the Premises Licence Holder and Premises Manager of a Glasgow pub have been fined for screening Sky sports to customers without the proper authorisation from Sky. The successful claim made by Sky was for breach of an inte...