Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

LA1

Apologies for absence

To record apologies for absence. 

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were submitted on behalf of Councillors Paul Barrow, Debby Hallett and Val Shaw.

LA2

Minutes pdf icon PDF 206 KB

To adopt and sign as a correct record the Licensing Acts Committee minutes of the meeting held on 21 October 2021. 

Minutes:

RESOLVED: to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 21 October 2021 as a correct record and agree that the Chair sign these as such.

 

 

LA3

Declarations of interest

To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests and any conflicts of interest in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.  

 

Minutes:

None.

LA4

Urgent business and chair's announcements

To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair. 

Minutes:

None.

LA5

Public participation

To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. 

Minutes:

None.

LA6

Appointment of licensing panels

Purpose: to agree the appointment of licensing sub-committees to consider matters under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005.

 

RECOMMENDATION to:

 

1.     appoint licensing sub-committees comprising any three members of the Licensing Acts Committee;

 

2.     appoint each member of the Licensing Acts Committee to serve on any sub-committee which is convened so as to include her or him in its membership, subject to her or him having attended appropriate training in the last 12 months;

 

3.     agree that the sub-committees be known as licensing panels;

 

4.     authorise each licensing panel to discharge all functions under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 including determining and dealing with applications for licences, certificates, temporary events and other notices and all variations, transfers, withdrawals and reviews of such matters;

 

5.     agree that wherever possible applications should be heard by a licensing panel comprising the chair or vice-chair of the committee plus two other members of the committee, but that this should not affect the principle that any three members of the committee will constitute a properly appointed licensing panel;

 

6.     authorise the head of legal and democratic to invite an appropriate licensing panel to conduct a scheduled hearing having regard to members’ availability and eligibility to take part and ensuring that as far as possible all members of the committee have the opportunity to conduct hearings. 

 

Minutes:

The committee considered a proposal to appoint licensing sub-committees to consider matters under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005.

 

RESOLVED to:

 

  • appoint licensing sub-committees comprising any three members of the Licensing Acts Committee;

 

  • appoint each member of the Licensing Acts Committee to serve on any sub-committee which is convened so as to include her or him in its membership, subject to her or him having attended appropriate training in the last 12 months;

 

  • agree that the sub-committees be known as licensing panels;

 

  • authorise each licensing panel to discharge all functions under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 including determining and dealing with applications for licences, certificates, temporary events and other notices and all variations, transfers, withdrawals and reviews of such matters;

 

  • agree that wherever possible applications should be heard by a licensing panel comprising the chair or vice-chair of the committee plus two other members of the committee, but that this should not affect the principle that any three members of the committee will constitute a properly appointed licensing panel;

 

  • authorise the head of legal and democratic to invite an appropriate licensing panel to conduct a scheduled hearing having regard to members’ availability and eligibility to take part and ensuring that as far as possible all members of the committee have the opportunity to conduct hearings.

 

 

 

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