Part 7: Alcohol licensing Section 139: Licensing Act 2003: addition of further relevant offences
Schedule 4 to the 2003 Act lists relevant offences, a conviction for which can be grounds for refusing a new personal licence, or for suspending or revoking an existing licence. (A conviction for an equivalent foreign offence or requirement to pay an immigration penalty can also lead to the refusal, suspension or forfeiture of a personal licence.)
	Where an applicant is found to have an unspent conviction for a relevant offence (or a foreign offence or has been required to pay an immigration penalty) the licensing authority is required to notify the police, who may object to the application on crime prevention grounds. (Whether a conviction is spent or unspent is provided for under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.)
	A personal licence may be suspended or forfeited by a court on conviction for a relevant offence. Section 138 will give the licensing authority the power to revoke or suspend a personal licence where there has been a conviction for a relevant offence.
	This section expands the list of relevant offences to include:
	the sexual offences listed in Schedule 3 to the SOA;
	the violent offences listed in Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003;
	the manufacture, importation and sale of realistic imitation firearms contrary to section 36 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006;
	using someone to mind a weapon contrary to section 28 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006; and
	the terrorism-related offences listed in section 41 of the Counter-terrorism Act 2008.