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Renewal of Personal Licences

Napthens - August 15th 2014
Under current legislation, personal licences need to be renewed after ten years, and the renewal application is required to be submitted no sooner than three months before the expiry date and no later than one month before the expiry date.
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Renewal of Personal Licences

Napthens - August 15th 2014
It has been proposed that the requirement to renew personal licences should be abolished under the Deregulation Bill, which is currently before Parliament.
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New Mandatory Condition…

Napthens - April 16th 2014
As advised in a previous e-update, earlier this year the Government confirmed their intention to implement a new mandatory condition prohibiting the sale of alcohol below the costs of duty plus VAT. The proposed wording of the mandatory...
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Personal licences set to stay

Napthens - March 28th 2014
The Government recently announced a consultation on whether or not personal licences should be abolished.As a result of the responses to that consultation, the Government has now announced that personal licences are remaining in place. The...
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Relaxation of licensing for World Cup

Napthens - March 17th 2014
A consultation has been launched by the Home Office to help determine whether licensing hours should be relaxed when England matches are played after 8pm (UK time) in the FIFA World Cup 2014. A relaxation of licensing hours would relate to...
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National minimum wage set to rise

Napthens - March 14th 2014
The Government has accepted the independent Low Pay Commission’s (LPC) recommendations for this year’s adult and youth national minimum wage (NMW) rates. As recommended by the LPC, the following rates will come into effect on 1 October...
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Have your say on licensing fees consultation

Napthens - March 6th 2014
A public consultation has been launched by the Home Office in relation to the fees payable for licensing applications. Since 2005 licensing fees have been set nationally, but under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 it is...
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Be prepared for Christmas trading hours

Napthens - November 29th 2013
The festive period is on the horizon and will no doubt provide a welcome boost for many in the trade. However, you need to be prepared in order to make the most of it. The majority of premises licences will have non-standard timings....
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Be prepared for ACPO ‘Week of Action’

Napthens - August 19th 2013
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has announced a “week of action” on licensing and alcohol-related harm, which will run from 16 – 22 September.It is understood that ACPO has not dictated to local forces what...
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Satellite football saga continues

Napthens - September 17th 2012
There have been a number of recent developments in the on-going saga surrounding the screening of foreign satellite football in pubs. Last month Lord Justice Stanley Burton upheld the decision made in the Chester Magistrates Court in...
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Training warning for door supervisors

Napthens - September 6th 2012
As many of you will already be aware, in June 2010 it became mandatory for door supervisors to undertake training which included awareness of terrorists’ threats, physical intervention training and how to deal specifically with the...
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Mixed reactions to Government Alcohol Strategy

Napthens - March 27th 2012
There was some interesting reading in the Government Alcohol Strategy which was released last week. The proposal to introduce a minimum price on alcohol (rumoured to be 40 pence per unit) has grabbed the most headlines out of the...
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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

Napthens - March 16th 2012
A number of significant changes to the Licensing Act 2003 will be introduced through the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, which received Royal Assent on 15 September 2011. Over the last few days, we have learnt that a...
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Red tape

Napthens - May 18th 2011
As you are undoubtedly already aware, there is a lot of red tape surrounding licensing law, in many instances making life unneccessarily difficult for licensees. Briefly, some examples of red tape issues that have been a cause for...
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The ongoing saga surrounding cigarette vending machines continues…

Napthens - March 9th 2011
The Health Act 2009 received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009 which allowed regulations to be made that ban cigarette vending machines. The subsequent introduction of the Protection from Tobacco (Sales from Vending Machines) Regulations...
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The Royal Wedding – extension of hours

Napthens - February 2nd 2011
The Government has launched a consultation proposing that pubs should have an automatic right to trade until 1 am after the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29th April this year and potentially the 30th as well.Under s. 172...
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