If (under pressure from the LGA Group lobby) any form of additional licensing is still said to be required for live music - as the other existing legisltion and licensing is deemed inadequte to protect the public in pubs - then by the same token, all the other of the Act's exemptions (including the TV sport one) would then also have to be scrapped.

Logic decrees that the existing exemptions are only possible because the other existing legislation IS currently judged to be adequate. If the LGA Group lobby thinks otherwise - it is up to them to prove that the other existing legislation is inadequate to deal with for any problems that specially may arise from live music alone.........