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Thread #126147   Message #3262700
Posted By: GUEST,The Shambles
24-Nov-11 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: Licensing consultation announced!
Subject: RE: Licensing consultation announced!
This is the meat of what is proposed in the Live Music Bill

Summary
3. The Bill seeks to amend the Licensing Act 2003 ("the 2003 Act") by partially deregulating the performance of live music and removing regulation about the provision of entertainment facilities.

Its purpose is to:
remove the licensing requirement for unamplified live music taking place between 8am and 11pm in all venues, subject to the right of a licensing authority to impose conditions about live music following a review of a premises licence or club premises certificate relating to premises authorised to supply alcohol for consumption on the premises;

remove the licensing requirement for amplified live music taking place between 8am and 11pm before audiences of no more than 200 persons on premises authorised to supply alcohol for consumption on the premises, subject to the right of a licensing authority to impose conditions about live music following a review of a premises licence or club premises certificate;

remove the licensing requirement for amplified live music taking place between 8am and 11pm before audiences of no more than 200 persons in workplaces not otherwise licensed under the 2003 Act (or licensed only for the provi sion of late night refreshment);

remove the licensing requirement for the provision of entertainment facilities; and widen the licensing exemption for live music integral to a performance of morris dancing or dancing of a similar type, so that the exemption applies to live or recorded music instead of unamplified live music.