Licensing Act 2003

Licensing Act 2003^[1]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision about the regulation of the sale and supply of alcohol, the provision of entertainment and the provision of late night refreshment, about offences relating to alcohol and for connected purposes.
Citation	2003 c. 17
Territorial extent	England and Wales, except that section 155(1) also extends to Northern Ireland and an amendment or repeal contained in Schedule 6 or 7 has the same extent as the enactment to which it relates.[2]
Dates
Royal assent	10 July 2003
Commencement	See section 201(2) and the orders made thereunder.
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes	Universities (Wine Licences) Act 1743 Sunday Observance Act 1780 Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 Licensing Act 1964 Refreshment Houses Act 1964 Private Places of Entertainment (Licensing) Act 1967 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1967 Late Night Refreshment Houses Act 1969 Sunday Theatre Act 1972 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1976 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1977 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1980 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1981 Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1985 Licensing Act 1988 Licensing (Retail Sales) Act 1988 Licensing (Amendment) Act 1989 Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) (Amendment) Act 1992 Licensing (Sunday Hours) Act 1995 Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act 1997 Licensing (Young Persons) Act 2000
Relates to	Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 The Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
Status: Amended
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17) is an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act establishes a single integrated scheme for licensing premises in England and Wales used to sell or supply of alcohol, provide regulated entertainment, or provide late night refreshment. It allows some or all of these licensable activities to be contained in a single licence—the premises licence—that replaced other schemes. Responsibility for issuing licences is given to local authorities, specifically London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities, and district councils, who took over this power from the justices of the peace under a system of licensing committees. It came into effect midnight, 24 November 2005.