Issue - meetings

To seek Members views on the operation of the Local Licensing Procedure Rules and to recommend certain amendments prior to the adoption of these Rules as part of the Council’s Constitution. (Attached)

(Agenda Item 7)

       The Chair invited the Legal Adviser, Terence Mitchison to present his Report to the Committee. Mr Mitchison explained to the Committee that the Council’s current Local Licensing Procedure Rules at Rule 37 should be withdrawn from the Procedure Rules as part of the Council’s Constitution.

       Mr Mitchison then presented to the Committee a revised version of the Summary of Procedures to be used at each sub-committee hearing under the revised Local Rules and constitutional arrangements which the Licensing Committee was being asked to approve.

       Mr Mitchison also sought to the Committee’s approval for an additional resolution within the Council’s Constitution at Part F.7, section 2, which provides to delegate to the Head of Legal Services, in consultation with the Chair of the Licensing Committee, power to make arrangements to deal with cases remitted to the Council by the Magistrates Court under section 181 of the Licensing Act 2003. This would be passed to the General Purposes Committee for ratification.

       RESOLVED

            The Licensing Committee agreed to the following recommendations: 

(i)                                         That Members review the operation of the Haringey Local Licensing Procedure Rules in the light of practical experience at Licensing Sub-Committee hearings.

(ii)                                       That Members approve the amendments to the Local Rules, presented to the Committee in its Report

(iii)                                     That Members request the General Purposes Committee to recommend the Local Rules, as amended above, to full Council for adoption as part of the Council’s Constitution.

(iv)                                      That Members agree to use the Summary of Procedure, as presented the Committee, as a guide at Licensing Sub-Committee hearings.

(v)                                        That Members note that Council Procedure Rule 37 does not apply to Licensing Sub-Committee hearings and agree that the “stand alone” item on Deputations/Petitions should no longer appear on Licensing Sub-Committee agendas.