LICENSING AND GAMBLING ACTS CASEWORK SUB-COMMITTEES

Powers and duties – Licensing

• decide whether to give, change or transfer premises licences or club registration certificates when there are objections

• decide whether to give a temporary premises licence to a replacement licence holder when there are objections

• review premises licences and club registration certificates after a closure order

• decide valid applications for a review of a premises licence or club registration certificate

• deal, when there are objections, with applications for a statement saying the council expects to give a licence to premises that are yet to be built or converted

• decide whether to prevent one-off events or to impose conditions when there are objections from the police or the Responsible Authority for Environmental Health

• decide applications to change the premises supervisor or appoint a temporary supervisor when there are objections from the police

• decide applications for personal licences when there are objections from the

Police

• decide whether to withdraw a personal licence on hearing of a conviction

• respond to consultation on an application by another body that gives licences.

Powers and duties – Gambling

• deal, when there are objections, with premises licence applications, changes and transfers

• review premises licences

• deal, when there are objections, with applications for a statement staying the council expects to give a licence to premises that are yet to be built, converted or occupied

• decide whether to prevent temporary events or uses when there are objections

• deal, when there are objections, with applications for club gaming, or club machine permits and cancellation of such permits

• deal, when there are police objections or officers would want to refuse them, with applications for prize gaming permits

• deal with anything else that needs a hearing or that cannot legally be delegated to officers