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At your Leisure - 13 September 2004
Calling Time: The Licensing Act 2003
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Calling Time: The Licensing Act 2003
- Objectives
- Flexible opening hours for bars, pubs & clubs
- Preventing crime & disorder
- Promoting public safety
- Protecting children
- Main provisions of the Act
- DCMS issues guidance for councils to follow
- Councils produce statement of general licensing approach
- New Personal Licence to permit supply of alcohol. Will cost about £30 and renewable every 10 years. Holder can move between licensed premises.
- New Premises Licence to cost between £100 and £500, depending on size of venue
- Police scrutiny of applications
- Local people can have their say
- Impact of new law
- Customers get more choice of late night venues
- Local residents get to request review of licence at any time
- Police get new powers to tackle disorder
- Councils get to 'shape' their local licensed trade
- Business gets cheaper licensing system
- Local authorities' view of new laws
- They will be responsible for making licensing decisions
- They must write statement of licensing policy in their area
- This process has started
- Statements are available for public consultation
- The Law
- Royal assent in July 2003
- Licensing premises that sell alcohol, put on live entertainment or provide late night refreshment
- Will replace current law that allows sale of alcohol between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday to Saturday, 12 noon and 10.30 p.m. Sunday
- Alcohol will be able to be sold 24 hours a day in theory, as long as views of residents, businesses & local authorities respected
- Industry view of new laws
- Bar Entertainment and Dance Association (BEDA) says the industry is 'on the cusp of a vast social experiment'
- Will leisure venues want to open later?
- Will local residents accept new closing times?
- What closing times will the councils grant?
- How will police manage the new system?
- Live music and entertainment
- Premises can apply to have live music at same time as they apply for their Premises Licence
- Will cost no more than Premises Licence
- No need for separate public entertainment licence
- End to 'two in a bar' rule encourages more musical diversity
- Stakeholders
- Government modernising society
- Local authorities have new licensing powers
- Communities can have their say
- Businesses involved in framing law
- People's changing lifestyles
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