From Hamish Birchall

The Licensing Act 2003 has now been published on the web:
http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/20030017.pdf

I couldn't find a link to the Explanatory Notes that are supposed to accompany the Act. Note that the last minute amendment relating to 'suspended' licence conditions for live music in certain small premises is in Section 177, p100 of the Act (p111 in the PDF), not in the entertainment schedule (Schedule 1).

Interestingly, there appears to be no 'Declaration of Compatibility' with the European Convention on Human Rights by DCMS Secretary of State Tessa Jowell.

Previous printings of the Bill as it went through Parliament did have this Declaration of Compatibility on the front page.

The office of the Joint Committee on Human Rights today confirmed that the Committee did consider the Licensing Act at its weekly meeting yesterday (Monday 14 July 2003). There was some doubt whether the Committee could consider an Act that had already received Royal Assent. But apparently the JCHR will report its findings perhaps as early as next week. So those submissions to the JCHR were not wasted.

It is hard to know at this stage whether the missing 'Declaration of Compatibility' and the JCHR's final consideration of the Act are in any way connected.