Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill - factsheets

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill has some interesting changes that will certainly effect you in some way.

Changes to the TEN's licence, new fines and penalties for underage sales and the late night levy fee, something all of us will feel the pain of.

The government have published some easy to follow fact sheets so check them out for yourself. The link is below.

Police Reform Act Fact Sheet.s

Temporary Event Notices. (TEN's

Temporary Event Notices
It's a good time especially if your business is in London to think about applying using them for the European Championships and the Olympics.
The recent changes to Temporary Event Notices see the relaxation the statutory limits on the duration of a single temporary event from 96 hours to 168 hours and the annual availability in relation to a single premises from 15 days to 21 days.

You might want to open later if you have a restaurant or bar or offer some other kind of regulated entertainment.

Either way plan now so you can get you applications in.

If you need any help or advise call us here at MJR Morgan Ltd 02035442211

The home office have published some simple fact sheets for the changes to  the TEN's licences.

The one below open the TEN's fact sheet.


Fact Sheet for the TEN's Licence

Food Hygiene

We recently published our new online Food Hygiene Level 2 Course for anyone who works with food.
The course is completely online and comes certificated CPD (certified personal development)

Set up in 10 easy to follow modules the course is interactive, graphically exciting and contains quiz and click to try elements, marketing it engaging for the user.

The whole course has been voiced by leading voice over artist Helen Bowden and the entire course and certificate is just an amazing £20 +vat

We've added some free downloads into the course that will help you to build your own food safety policy.

Check out our Video and Link www.foodhygiene.mjrmorgan.co.uk

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

The government set a clear commitment to overhaul alcohol licensing to tackle the crime and disorder caused by alcohol and the resultant health and social harms, and to rebalance the Licensing Act 2003 in favour of local communities.

Like we needed that!

I have to say some of the new measure are OK such as the changes to the "Tens" licence and as far as the fines increasing for persistant under age saless, well I'm OK with that too.

The one factor that's cetrainly worrying for the industy are the new "Late night levy fees." As yet we can't be certain until November of the exact cost impact of already struggling bars and clubs but so far as to say, it won't help!
 
The new measures in the Act include:

• doubling the fine for persistent underage sales to £20,000
• introducing a late night levy to help cover the cost of policing the late night economy
• increasing the flexibility of early morning alcohol restriction orders
• lowering the evidential threshold on licensing authorities
• removing the vicinity test for licensing representations to allow wider local community involvement
• reforming the system of temporary event notices (TENs)
• suspension of premises licences due to non-payment of annual fees

I've included a useful link so you can view all of the fact sheets publised by the government and the changes that have been made.

It came into force on April 25th so if you're in the trade, you might want to take a look.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/alcohol/licensing-act-next-steps/rebalancing-consultation/prsrb-factsheets/

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