Clause 49 - Supplementary provision about interim authority notices
Licensing Bill [Lords]
9:45 am
Mr Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
It is feasible that the body corporate that owns the business and premises will ensure that the premises licence is held by the individual who runs the business. That is not a problem. When discussing clause 47, we debated what happens when a person who holds such a licence dies, enters a mental institution or becomes insolvent. That triggers off the requirement that either the interim notice be applied for, or the business must collapse, and at some stage in the future someone will reapply for the licence and start afresh. Given such circumstances, it is almost impossible that a person working in the pub would not know who had taken over under an interim notice. If the designated premises supervisor fell, in legal terms, when the licence holder died, a new supervisor would have to be reappointed by the new holder of the licence under the interim authority. It seems unreasonable to charge someone £1,000 for failure to tell the person what has happened. However, we have had a long debate on the matter now. I may return to it on Report, but for the moment, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 49 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 50 ordered to stand part of the Bill.