Latest Legislation Guidance for Businesses Allergy and Intolerance: Guidance for Businesses Posted: 29 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT The Food Standards Agency has issued Guidance designed to help food businesses including pubs, bars, hotels and restaurants to provide information to customers who need to avoid certain ingredients because of an allergy. The Guidance includes general… Read More »
Prohibiting the sale of alcohol at a price below the total of duty paid plus VAT – Live from 28 May 2014 Posted: 20 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT 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… Read More »
Banning the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT – new mandatory condition delayed Posted: 09 Apr 2014 05:00 PM PDT Following the proposed implementation of the new mandatory licence condition by way of the Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2014 (see our previous article here), it has been… Read More »
Personal Licences – Changes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 Posted: 18 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST You will no doubt be aware that all personal licence applicants must disclose any unspent relevant convictions on their application paperwork and the Police may object to such application if they feel the granting of the licence… Read More »
Home Office launch consultation on locally set licence fees Posted: 12 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST The Home Office has today launched a public consultation on the move from centrally-set to locally-set fees under the Licensing Act 2003. The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 introduced a power for the Home Secretary to prescribe… Read More »
Lancet Report – Minimum Unit Pricing – “will save UK lives” Posted: 10 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST As the Appeal into minimum pricing enters its second week in Scotland a report published in the Lancet has stated that setting a minimum alcohol price of 45 pence a unit in Britain would cut deaths and… Read More »
Banning the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT – guidance issued Posted: 04 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST The Government has today published its guidance on banning the sale of alcohol below the cost of duty plus VAT for England and Wales. The relevant guidance document can be found here: ‘Guidance… Read More »
DCMS Entertainment Licensing Statistics in the year to 31 March 2013 Posted: 05 Dec 2013 04:00 PM PST Last month the Home Office released statistics relating to alcohol and late night refreshment licensing in England and Wales as at 31 March 2013. Our article on this can be found here. This month it is the… Read More »
Latest research on Crime Levels relating to the Licensing Act 2003 The latest research on the effects on crime levels of the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003 has been published. The research was undertaken by Dr David Humphreys a Criminologist from the University of Cambridge. There has always been a division of opinion on… Read More »
Home Office Licensing Statistics in the year to 31 March 2013 Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST The Home Office has just released comprehensive statistics relating to alcohol and late night refreshment licensing England and Wales as at 31 March 2013. The DCMS’ statistics relating to entertainment figures is expected on 5 December… Read More »