Part 2Licensing bodies and officers

Local Licensing Forums

I112Licensing Boards' duties in relation to Local Licensing Forums

1

A Licensing Board must—

a

in exercising any function, have regard to any advice given, or recommendation made, to them in relation to the function by a Local Licensing Forum, and

b

where the Board decides not to follow the advice or recommendation, give the Forum reasons for the decision.

2

At the request of a Local Licensing Forum, a relevant Licensing Board must provide to the Forum copies of such relevant statistical information as the Forum may reasonably require for the purposes of the Forum's general functions.

3

In this section, “relevant statistical information” means, in relation to a Licensing Board, such statistical information as the Board may have obtained under section 6(5).