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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing bodies - District licensing committees

199: Annual report

You could also call this:

"A yearly report on how alcohol licences are managed in your area, available for you to see."

The territorial authority you live in must prepare a report every year about what its licensing committees have done. This report must be sent to the licensing authority within three months of the end of each financial year. You can think of the licensing authority as the group that oversees the licensing committees.

The licensing authority gets to decide what the report should look like and what information it should include. If you want to see a copy of the report, you can ask for one and you might have to pay a small fee for it.

The report is a public record, which means it is available for anyone to see. Your local territorial authority must make the report available for you to look at for free, and they must also put it on their website for at least five years, as stated in the related legislation.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing bodies: District licensing committees

199Annual report

  1. Within 3 months after the end of every financial year, every territorial authority must prepare and send to the licensing authority a report of the proceedings and operations of its licensing committees during the year.

  2. The licensing authority may specify the form of the annual report and the matters to be included in the report.

  3. The licensing authority or the licensing committee must, on payment of any reasonable fee it may prescribe, provide a copy of each report to any person who asks for one.

  4. Every annual report required to be prepared under this section is a public record for the purposes of this Act.

  5. A copy of every annual report must be made available by the territorial authority for inspection free of charge and be made available on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the territorial authority for a period of not less than 5 years.

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