Agenda item - Renewal of Personal Licences

Report of the Director of Public Health (copy attached)

RESOLVED – That the contents of the report be noted.

29.1    The Committee considered a report of the Director of Public Health providing Members with an update in relation to the 10 year renewal of personal licences in order to apprise them of local and national issues.

29.2    The Head of Regulatory Services explained that when the Licensing Act 2003 had been introduced in November 2005, the local authority had become responsible for issuing personal licences, which would be valid for a period of ten years after which time they needed to be renewed.

29.3    It was explained that the Government was intending to remove the requirement for personal licence holders to renew their licences every ten years through the Deregulation Bill, currently before Parliament, it seemed unlikely however, that this would receive Royal Assent before the tenth anniversary of the date at which the first applications for personal licences had been received and processed by the Council during April/May 2005. As the Council had a duty to process personal licence renewal applications until the Government removed that requirement the application form to renew a licence had been amended so that licence holders were required to provide only essential information to the licensing authority. Copies of the application form were available on the Council website.

29.4    RESOLVED – That the contents of the report be noted.