It would appear that the pubs in your area don't want a licence to cover entertainment?

Those who wish to stage Regulated Entertainment have applied and many of these have had questionably legal conditions imposed on the times these entertainments must cease.

I am just trying to ensure that where the licensee is willing - the public can exercise their right of freedom of expression through non-amplified music without the local authority preventing it by classing it as Regulated Entertainment.

Insisting that the riders of motor-bikes wear crash helmets and pay for their road fund licence is lawful and it makes sense. Insisting that the rider of a bicycle requires these by pretending that the bicycle is a motor bike - is not lawful and does not make sense.

There is no exemption for the singing of carols or traditional music but in other parts of the country where this legislation applies - these things are being allowed to take place without the licensing permission that my LA insist on to re-start a session that ran for 5 yearsbefore the council prevented it for a lack of a PEL.

I have no wish to see these things prevented elsewhere but if they are a regulated entertainment as defined in the Act - why should these take palce and my local sessions be prevented?

A participant locally carol singing outside a supermarket was shown the report from Norfolk where a similar event was prevented after the LA advised that it was regulated Entertainment. He also read the DCMS website information. But when he retrospectively asked out MP's office if the event needed a licence - the word from the council was that it did not.

He asked our MP because he was invoved in the act. The MP knows perfectly well the words of the Act do not exclude the singing of carols in this situation - so what is going on? On what grounds is this activity not RegulatedEntertainment and my session is?