This is an amendment in the Lords. It would reduce opposition greatly if Howells accepts it but I doubt if he will.


Schedule 1

THE LORD REDESDALE
THE VISCOUNT FALKLAND
THE BARONESS BUSCOMBE
THE LORD LUKE

Page 110, line 16, leave out "recorded"
Page 110, line 32, at end insert—
"Unamplified music incidental to certain other activities

(1)       The provision of entertainment consisting of the performance of live music (and not comprising or including 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 the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied and to the extent that it is incidental to some other activity that is not itself—
(a)   entertainment of a description falling within paragraph 2, or
(b)   the provision of entertainment facilities.
(2)       The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are that—
(a)   the other activity referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is the subject of, and is undertaken in accordance with, a licence granted under this Act;
(b)   the live music being performed is not provided in whole or part by means of, or with the assistance of, electrical or electronic amplification, or made more readily audible by such amplification either in the place where the performance is occurring or in any other place."
Schedule 6

THE BARONESS BUSCOMBE
THE LORD LUKE

Page 133, line 42, at end insert—
"51A (1)       Section 11 (provisions as to licensing and registration) is amended as follows.
(1)       For subsection (1) substitute—

"(1)       The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the licensing of premises for gaming and in England and Wales for licensable activities ancillary thereto."

(2)       At end insert—

"(3)       In this section "licensable activities" has the same meaning as in the Licensing Act 2003"."