The tweak to also exempt facilites provided for exempt performances of live music is needed as the current words only exempt the activity itself. However, even in its new form, it is too little and too late and unlikely to make any difference now. Had our licensing enforcers a different culture to the one that had already caused most of the problems - this exemption could, without costs and red tape, have encouraged all sorts of live music in all sorts of premises.

Music incidental to certain other activities
7 The provision of entertainment consisting of the performance of live music or the playing of recorded music is not to be regarded as the provision of regulated entertainment for the purposes of this Act to the extent that it is incidental to some other activity which is not itself—
(a) a description of entertainment falling within paragraph 2, or
(b) the provision of entertainment facilities.