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Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982

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1Licensing of public entertainments

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the licensing outside Greater London of the public entertainments referred to in that Schedule.

(2)Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Schedule shall not have effect in the area of a local authority unless the authority so resolve.

(3)If a local authority do so resolve, those paragraphs shall come into force in their area on the day specified in that behalf in the resolution (which must not be before the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which the resolution is passed).

(4)A local authority shall publish notice that they have passed a resolution under this section in two consecutive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in their area.

(5)The first publication shall not be later than 28 days before the day specified in the resolution for the coming into force of the paragraphs in the local authority's area.

(6)The notice shall state the general effect of the paragraphs.

(7)The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being amendments consequential on subsections (1) to (6) above.

(8)In Schedule 12 to the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963—

(a)in paragraph 10(3) (penalties for offences relating to entertainments held without licences or contravening licences) for " five hundred pounds " there shall be substituted " £1,000 "; and

(b)in paragraph 12(3) (penalty for refusal to permit entry to or inspection of premises) for " twenty pounds " there shall be substituted " £200 ".

(9)Subsection (8) above has effect only in relation to offences committed after 1st January 1983.

(10)So much of any local enactment passed before 1974 as relates to the regulation by means of licensing of public entertainments of any description referred to in Schedule 1 to this Act shall cease to have effect.

(11)In this section " local authority " means—

(a)the council of a district; and

(b)the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(12)This section shall come into force on 1st January 1983.

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