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Betting Premises

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The Gambling Act 2005 came into force on 1 September 2007. The new legislation transferred responsibility for the licensing of gambling premises from the local magistrates courts to the Licensing Authority (the City Council). 

The Gambling Commission deal with applications for Personal Licences and Operating Licences. Further information and application forms may be accessed by visiting the Gambling Commission website.

New Premises Application

Anyone considering trading a betting premises after 31 August 2007 must apply to the Licensing Authority (the City Council) for a Premises Licence. Premises Licence application forms may be downloaded from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's website. Once it has been granted, the new premises licence will not have to be renewed unless there is a change in circumstances, but it will be subject to an annual fee payable to the Licensing Authority. On 30 April 2007 the Council's Licensing and Gambling Committee set the level of fees to be charged for premises licences and a table of fees may be accessed below.

You must submit your application form, enclose a plan of the premises and licence fee to the Licensing Authority. You must also give the prescribed form of Notice of Application to all the Responsible Authorities within 7 Days beginning on the date on which the application is made. If you give notice to a particular Responsible Authority but it is not in the correct form, then you must give the correct form of notice as soon as practicable after the end of the 7 Day period. The particular Responsible Authority then has 28 Days to make representation beginning on the day it receives the correct notice.

You must then publish a prescribed notice of application in a local newspaper on at least one occasion during the period of 10 working days starting with the day on which the application is made. If the notice is not in the correct form then you must publish the correct form of notice as soon as practicable after the end of the 10 day working period. An interested party then has 28 days to make a representation beginning on the day the correct notice has been published.

You must then publish the the same prescribed form of notice on the premises in a place where it can be conveniently read by the public from the exterior of the premises for 28 consecutive days starting on the date on which the application is made. If the notice is not in the correct form then you must publish the correct form of notice as soon as practicable after the end of the 10 day working period. An interested party then has 28 days to make a representation beginning on the day the correct notice has been published.


Responsible Authorities

Please click here to view names and contact details of the Responsible Authorities (PDF [22.6Kb] opens in new window) under the Gambling Act 2005.

Fees

The City Council's Licensing & Gambling Committee has approved the fees to be charged for applications under the Gambling Act 2005. Please click here to view the table of fees (PDF [32.3Kb] opens in new window).

Contact Us

Liverpool City Council Licensing Unit
Room 219, Municipal Buildings
Dale Street
Liverpool
L2 2DH

T - 0151 233 3015
F - 0151 225 3493
E - licensing@liverpool.gov.uk

If you would like this information in another language or format please ask us by telephoning 0151 233 3015 or by email - licensing@liverpool.gov.uk