Overview Amendments of the Licensing Act 2003 Section 123: Personal licences: relevant offences
363.This section amends Schedule 4 to the Licensing Act 2003. This contains the offences (“relevant offences”) which are relevant to the processes governing the grant, renewal etc. of personal licences. An applicant for the grant or renewal of a personal licence must disclose an unspent conviction for a relevant offence or a foreign offence. A licensing authority notifies the police of the existence of such a conviction, and the police can object to the grant or renewal of the application if they are satisfied that the grant or renewal of the application would undermine the crime prevention objective. This objection requires the licensing authority to hold a hearing to determine the matter. There is also provision for revocation of a personal licence if a personal licence holder is convicted of a relevant offence.
364.The relevant offences include sex offences, offences involving violence and dishonesty, road traffic offences and drugs offences. This section amends the list of relevant offences to include an offence of attempt to commit a relevant offence or conspiracy to commit a relevant offence, an offence of failing to co-operate with a preliminary test under section 6(6) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and conspiracy to defraud.
365.Subsection (5) makes provision for the application of these amendments.