Licence Conditions
The Licensee shall ensure that each member of staff authorised to sell alcohol has received appropriate training on the law with regard to age-restricted products, proxy sales, and the licensable hours and conditions attached to the licence, including refresher training every six months, and that this is properly documented and training records kept. The training record (either written or electronic) shall be kept on the licensed premises and made available for inspection by the Licensing Officer, Trading Standards or the Police, on request.
The Licensee shall ensure that each member of staff authorised to sell alcohol is sufficiently capable and confident to confront and challenge under 25’s attempting to purchase alcohol.
CCTV will be provided in the form of a recordable system, capable of providing pictures of evidential quality in all lighting conditions. Cameras shall encompass all ingress and egress to the premises, fire exits and all areas where the sale and supply of alcohol occurs.
Equipment must be maintained in good working order, be correctly time and date stamped, recordings MUST be kept on the hard drive and kept for a period of 31 days and handed to Police upon request.
The premises licence holder must ensure at all times a DPS or appointed member of staff is capable and competent at downloading CCTV footage in a recordable format to the Police and Local Authority upon request.
An Incident log shall be kept at the premises, and made available on request to a police officer, police licensing officer
or council authorised licensing officer. It must be completed within 24 hours of the incident and will record the following:
· All crimes reported at the venue.
· All ejections of patrons
· Any complaints received concerning crime and disorder.
· Any incident of disorder
· All seizure of drugs or offensive weapons
· Any faults in the CCTV system, searching equipment or scanning equipment.
· Any refusal of the sale of alcohol
· Any visit by a relevant authority or emergency service
· Each entry is to be checked and signed by the DPS/Licensee no later than 1 week after the entry has been made.
The register must be made available to Police, Police Licensing Officers and authorised officers from the Local Authority either electronically or hard copy.
The Licensee shall ensure that appropriate fire safety procedures are in place.
The Licensee shall ensure that all fire escapes/escape routes will be clearly marked and kept free from obstructions at all times.
Notices shall be prominently displayed at all exits requesting customers to respect the needs of local residents and leave the area quietly.
Prominently advertise the scheme in your premises so that customers are aware, display proof of age signs at the point of sale.
Keep a refusals book on the premises and ensure it is completed whenever a sale is refused to under the age of 18 years.
The details should contain date, time of the incident, a description of the customer, the name of the staff member who refused the sale and the reason the sale was refused.
The book should be made available to police and authorised council officer on request.
A ‘challenge 25’ scheme serves as a reminder to staff of the need to be vigilant in preventing underage sales and to customers that it is against the law for anyone under 18 to purchase alcohol.
Only accept photographic driving licence, passports or PASS (proof of age standards scheme) cars approved as means of ID. If you accept other forms of ID such as EU national ID cards, these must bear a photograph, DOB, and holographic mark