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Police Law - Ninth Edition

Chapter 19 - Licensed Premises, Licensed Persons, Clubs, Places of Entertainment and Offences of Drunkeness

Chapter 19 - Licensed Premises, Licensed Persons, Clubs, Places of Entertainment and Offences of Drunkeness

Temporary event notices p 616, para 4

The form of the notice referred to in the fourth paragraph has now been prescribed by the Licensing Act 2003 (permitted Temporary Activities) (Notices) Regulations 2005, SI 2005/2918.

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[Added September 2006] Opening hours of premises in respect of which there is a premises licence or club premises certificate p 617

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Where a local authority had a 'cumulative impact policy' which required it to take into account relevant representations about the cumulative impact on the licensing objectives, in an area in which there were a significant number of licensed premises, a divisional court held that it was entitled to have such a policy in relation to applications for new licences and variations of existing licences. [R (JD Weatherspoon plc) v Guildford Borough Council (2006) Times, 14 April]

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Opening hours of premises in respect of which there is a premises licence or club premises certificate p 618 & 619

The text from the paragraph beginning 'As these provisions concerning opening hours' up to but not including the heading 'Personal Licences' no longer applies. All opening hours are now as agreed with the local licensing authority.

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Personal Licences p 620

In the list (a) to (m).item (l) should be replaced with:

1. a sexual offence listed in to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 other than the offences mentioned in para 95 (an offence under the SOA 1967 (procuring other to commit homosexual offence); an offence under the SOA 1956, s 8 (intercourse with a defective); and an offence under the SOA 1956, s 18 (fraudulent abduction of an heiress), or a violent offence, being any offence which leads, or is intended or likely to lead, to a person's death or serious injury to a person, including an offence which is required to be charged as arson (whether or not it would otherwise fall within that definition); and

[See SI 2005/2366].