Part 2

Licensing bodies and officers

Local Licensing Forums

Local Licensing Forums
10
1
Each council must establish a Local Licensing Forum for their area.
2
However, where the area of a council is divided into licensing divisions, the council may, instead of establishing a Local Licensing Forum for their area, establish separate such Forums for each division.
3
Each Licensing Board must hold, at least once in each calendar year, a joint meeting with the Local Licensing Forum for the Board's area.
4
Schedule 2 makes further provision about Local Licensing Forums, including provision about their membership and procedural and other administrative matters in relation to them.

General functions of Local Licensing Forums
11
1
Each Local Licensing Forum has the following general functions—
a
keeping under review—
i
the operation of this Act in the Forum's area, and,
ii
in particular, the exercise by the relevant Licensing Board or Boards of their functions, and
b
giving such advice and making such recommendations to that or any of those Boards in relation to those matters as the Forum considers appropriate.
2
Subsection (1) does not enable a Local Licensing Forum to—
a
review, or
b
give advice, or make recommendations, in relation to,
the exercise by a Licensing Board of their functions in relation to a particular case.
3
In this section, section 12 and schedule 2, “relevant Licensing Board”, in relation to a Local Licensing Forum, means—
a
the Licensing Board for the Forum's area, or
b
in the case of a Local Licensing Forum for a council area which is divided into licensing divisions, each of the Licensing Boards for those divisions.

Licensing Boards' duties in relation to Local Licensing Forums
12
1
A Licensing Board must—
a
in exercising any function, have regard to any advice given, or recommendation made, to them in relation to the function by a Local Licensing Forum, and
b
where the Board decides not to follow the advice or recommendation, give the Forum reasons for the decision.
2
At the request of a Local Licensing Forum, a relevant Licensing Board must provide to the Forum copies of such relevant statistical information as the Forum may reasonably require for the purposes of the Forum's general functions.
3
In this section, “relevant statistical information” means, in relation to a Licensing Board, such statistical information as the Board may have obtained under section 6(5).
S. 10 in force at 1.5.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/129, art. 3, Sch.
S. 11 in force at 1.5.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/129, art. 3, Sch.
S. 12 in force at 1.5.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/129, art. 3, Sch.