COMMENTARY ON SECTIONS PART 7: Offences. Section 136 – Unauthorised licensable activities
219.This section makes it an offence to carry on or attempt to carry on a licensable activity without the authorisation provided by, as appropriate, a premises licence, a club premises certificate or a temporary event notice. It is also an offence knowingly to allow such an activity to be carried on. This provision is central to the enforcement of the licensing regime introduced by the Act.
220.Certain activities which would otherwise fall within the definition of “licensable activities” in section 1(1) are excluded from that definition by sections 173 to 175. Subsection (2) provides that an offence is not committed under section 136 if the only involvement of a person in the provision of regulated entertainment is his performance etc.