Clause 1 - Licensable activities and qualifying club activities
Licensing Bill [Lords]
8:55 am
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to take the following: Amendment No. 97, in
clause 1, page 2, line 4, leave out 'regulated entertainment' and insert 'premises for public gatherings'.
New schedule 1—Provision of Premises for Public Gatherings—
''The Secretary of State shall make regulations which shall be subject to the negative resolution procedure and which—
(a) define ''the provision of premises for public gatherings'' to have the normal meaning of those words save that they exclude premises which have planning permission (or established use certificates) for use for public gatherings of the size contemplated, and—
(i) have a valid fire safety certificate; or
(ii) have regularly in the last five years been used for public gatherings of the size contemplated; and
(b) define ''the size contemplated'' to mean contemplated by the organizer of the gathering.'.