LICENSING ACT
The Premises Licensing Act (2005) now requires all hotels, pubs, and licensed restaurants in Scotland to provide detailed layouts and specialist drawings of all licensed premises in order to operate legally within the licensing regulations.
We are assisting many licensed premises in Highland Region, Moray, and Grampian with these requirements.We can help you meet the deadline. Contact us for a quotation.
Below you can read key extracts of the Licensing Act.
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Made 9th October 2007
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 11th October 2007
Coming into force 1st February 2008
(a) is to be in the form set out in Schedule 1; and
(b) is also to contain the operating plan and layout plan in respect of the premises to which the licence
relates.
(a) in a scale where 1 millimetre represents 100 millimetres; or
(b) in such other scale as may be agreed between the person submitting the plan and the Licensing
Board to which it is to be submitted.
SCOTTI SH STATUTORY I NSTRUMENTS
2007 No. 452
LICENSING (LIQUOR)
The Premises Licence (Scotland) Regulations 2007
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections
20(2)(b)(ii) and (4), 26(1) and (2)(f), 134(1), 146(2) and 147(1) of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005(1) and all
other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Premises Licence (Scotland) Regulations 2007 and come into
force on 1st February 2008.
Premises licence
2. A premises licence–
Summary of premises licence
3. A summary of any premises licence required to be issued under section 26(1)(b) of the Licensing
(Scotland) Act 2005 is to be in the form set out in Schedule 2.
Application for a premises licence
4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an application for a premises licence is to be in the form set out in
Schedule 3.
(1) An application for a premises licence lodged no later than 16th January 2009 may also include the
additional material set out in Schedule 4.
Layout plan
5.—(1) A layout plan is to be drawn–
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(a) is to show the matters specified in paragraph (3);
(b) is to show the matters specified in paragraph (4) in the case of premises to be licensed for the sale
of alcohol for consumption on the premises;
(c) is to show the matters specified in paragraph (5) in the case of premises to be licensed for the sale
of alcohol for consumption off the premises; and
(d) may include a legend through which the matters mentioned or referred to in those paragraphs are
sufficiently illustrated by the use of symbols on the plan.
(a) the extent and dimensions of the boundary of the building, if relevant, and any external and internal
walls of the building and, if different, the perimeter and dimensions of the premises to be licensed
(including outside drinking areas);
(b) the location and names of any streets surrounding the premises from which members of the public
have access to the premises;
(c) the location and width of each point of access to and egress from the premises;
(d) the location and width of any other escape routes from the premises;
(e) the location of any equipment used for the detection or warning of fire or smoke or for fighting fires;
(f) the location of any steps, stairs, elevators or lifts on the premises;
(g) the location of any toilets on the premises (identified as male, female or disabled as appropriate);
(h) any area on the premises set aside specifically for the use of children and young persons; and
(i) any area on the premises to which children and young persons will have access.
(a) the location of the area or areas to be used for the display of alcohol;
(b) the maximum width and height (in metres) of the frontage to be used for the display of alcohol
within that area or those areas; and
(c) the maximum linear measurement (in metres) of any displays of alcohol outside the frontage
referred to in head (b).
KENNY MACASKILL
A member of the Scottish Executive
Regulation 2
(2) A layout plan–
(3) The matters specified in this paragraph are–
(4) The matters specified in this paragraph are the use or uses to which each part of the premises will be
put (under reference to the activities identified in the operating plan).
(5) The matters specified in this paragraph are–
Operating plan
6. An operating plan is to be in the form set out in Schedule 5.
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
9th October 2007
SCHEDULE 1
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