Businesses, organisations and individuals who want to provide
types of entertainment may require a licence or other authorisation from a
licensing authority - a local council.
The types of businesses and organisations that need a licence
for entertainment might include:
·
nightclubs
·
live music venues
·
cinemas
·
larger theatres
·
larger street and open
air festivals
·
larger indoor sporting
arena
In particular a licence may be required by:
·
anyone that provides
any entertainment between 11PM and 8AM;
·
anyone that provides
amplified live or recorded music to an audience of more than 500 people;
·
anyone that provides recorded music to an audience on premises not licensed for
the sale or supply of alcohol;
·
anyone that puts on a
performance of a play or dance to an audience of more than 500 people, or an indoor sports to more than 1,000 spectators
·
anyone that puts on boxing and
wrestling
·
anyone that screens a film to an audience
Whether a licence is needed for music entertainment will depend
on the circumstances. A licence is not required to stage a performance of live
music, or the playing of recorded music if:
·
it takes place between
8AM and 11PM; and
·
it takes place at an
alcohol on-licensed premises; and
·
the audience is no
more than 500 people
You also don’t need a licence:
·
to put on unamplified
live music at any place between the same hours; or
·
to put on amplified
live music at a workplace between the same hours and provided the audience is
no more than 500 people.
In other
circumstances, a licence may be required. One licence application can cover all types of regulated entertainment
and the sale or supply of alcohol.
There are exemptions from the need for a licence for music entertainment, in
defined circumstances as set out in the guidance , including for:
·
places of public
worship, village halls, church halls and other similar buildings
·
schools
·
hospitals
·
local authority
premises
·
incidental music -
music that is incidental to other activities that aren’t classed as regulated
entertainment
The guidance also sets out the process by which a local
council can review a licence where problems may occur in relation to music
entertainment and noise nuisance.
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