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Meeting documentation

Meeting documents

Licensing Committee
Wednesday, 4th October, 2006 6.30 pm

ItemDescriptionResolution
Declaration of interests - members are reminded that following the adoption by Council of the new Code of Conduct, any declaration of interest should be made having regard to the new code. In particular, members must make clear the nature of the interest and whether it is 'personal' or 'prejudicial'.

The Monitoring Officer would like to remind members that when they are considering whether the following items are exempt information under the relevant paragraph under part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 they must have regard to the public interest test. This means that members must consider, for each item, whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption from disclosure outweighs the public interest in making the item available to the public.
7 MINUTES
Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday, 2nd August, 2006
 RESOLVED THAT:

The minutes of 2 August 2006 be approved subject to the following amendments:

Page A0001, Review of the Constitution - paragraph 1 should read 'B0003 item 3.4 to 3.8 which re-exmamined the issues of ward members not sitting on a licensing sub-committee to determine an application in their own area and strongly advised members against changing the existing policy for the reasons contained in her report.

Page A0001, paragraph 2, line 2 - replace the word 'board' with 'ward'.
8 GAMBLING ACT 2005 STATEMENT OF LICENSING POLICY
The Licensing Enforcement Officer oresented the report of the Head of Environmental Health advising Members that paragraph 3.0 Fees had been amended to read as follows:

3.1 - As advised in a previous report, the fee regulations are still outstanding but are due to be laid in November. The regulations are expected to set band levels and it would be then for the Licensing Authority to decide what fees to set within these bands. Under section 154 of the Act, the decision of what fees to charge may be delegated by Full Council to the Licensing Committee.

3.2 - It is recommended that members delegate the setting of fees to Officers so that they can set the appropriate fees based on cost recovery once fee regulations have been issued.

She then presented the consultation information contained in Appendices 2 to 7 and answered members' questions.

The External Legal Advisor then detailed members the changes made in light of the consultation to the Draft Licensing Policy contained in Appendix 8 and answered members' questions.
 RECOMMENDED:

(a) TO CONSIDER THE SUGGESTED CHANGES TO THE DRAFT STATEMENT OF LICENSING POLICY AND MAKE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS FOR ONWARD CONSIDERATION BY THE COUNCIL ON 31 OCTOBER 2006.

(b) tO CONSIDER CHANGES TO THE CONSTITUTION TO INCORPORATE THE OPERATION OF THE GAMBLING ACT 2005 AND MAKE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS FOR ONWARD CONSIDERATION BY COUNCIL ON 31 OCTOBER 2006.

(c)TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED DELEGATION SCHEME (APPENDIX 9) AND MAKE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS FOR ONWARD CONSIDERATION BY COUNCIL ON 31 OCTOBER 2006.

(d) TO NOTE THE CURRENT POSITION IN RELATION TO SETTING FEES AS AMENDED AND CIRCULATED AT THE MEETING.

(e) TO ADVISE MEMBERS OF THE MANDATORY TRAINING TO BE PROVIDED FOR THE GAMBLING ACT 2005.
Published on Friday, 8th June, 2007
The meeting closed at 7.00pm.

Attendance Details

Present:
Councillor D Howe (Chairman) (In the Chair)

Councillors J Collins, R A Evans, P Holland, J T Male, A C Saffell, G Tacey, J B Webster, D H Wintle, R Woodward and M B Wyatt.

Officers: Mrs C Collins, Messrs D Lucas and L Mansfield and Miss E McHugh