I have been introduced to this discussion and would add the following. For reasons that are patently obvious I will neither identify myself nor the location but I know a pub where a Folk Club has been regularly held for many, many years booking all manner of folk artists. It intends to carry on regardless of the LA until such times as it is rumbled or someone rats on it. Come that day it will stop its` club, the "members" being aware of this, and just continue running its` licensed business.It will be a great loss to all.

If it (or any of us ) can live long enough for the new Act to come into force - there will be no need to stop. All the licensee has to to at that point, is to apply for permission and specify the nature of the event they intend to stage. They will not need to state that they are already doing it.