Agenda item - Constitutional Matters- Licensing Committee (Licensing Act 2003 Functions)

Report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services (copy attached)

3.1         The Committee considered a report of the Head of Legal & Democratic Services, concerning the terms of reference of the committee and outlining the need to appoint an Urgency Sub-Committee.

3.2         RESOLVED:

(1)          That the committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be noted;

(2)          That the Committee establish the Licensing Panel as a sub-committee (the membership of such Licensing Panel shall consist of three Members from the trained Members on the Licensing Committee, who will be able to sit on a panel and substitute for any designated Member of the Panel) to deal with licensing applications in accordance with the Terms of Reference as set out at Appendix A to the report;

(3)          That the Committee agree to disapply the proportionality rules so far as a Licensing Panel is concerned in accordance with the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990; and

(4)          That the establishment of an Urgency Sub-Committee consisting of the Chair of the Committee and Councillors Cobb and Deane, to exercise its powers in relation to matters of urgency, on which it is necessary to make a decision before the next ordinary meeting of the Committee be approved.