We use cookies to collect anonymous data to help us improve your site browsing experience. Click 'Accept all cookies' to agree to all cookies that collect anonymous data. To only allow the cookies that make the site work, click 'Use essential cookies only. Your cookie preferences have been saved. You can change your cookie settings at any time. The key aims of civic licensing are the preservation of public safety and order and the prevention of crime. A specific licensing regime for sexual entertainment venues will allow local authorities to consider local circumstances in setting the number of venues able to operate within their areas this could be nil and to exercise appropriate control and regulation of these venues.
Local authorities that do not currently have any sexual entertainment venues may wish to carefully consider whether there would be merit in making a resolution and setting a number including nil of such venues for their area to allow them to control the number of sexual entertainment venues operating in their area in the future. This change prevents the granting of a licence for a sex shop or sexual entertainment venue to a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom the UK or was not resident throughout the 6 month period prior to the application being made.
It also prevents the granting of a licence to a body corporate not incorporated in the UK. These provisions come into force on exit day.
The previous residency restrictions for granting a licence were to a member state of the EU. A published sexual entertainment policy statement will provide local communities with a clear indication of the local authority's policy and examples of licensing conditions, along with enforcement details. The policy should also demonstrate how the local authority intends to help protect the safety and wellbeing of performers, customers and the wider public.
The provisions of the Act which relate to the licensing of sexual entertainment venues SEV come into force on 26 April However this is not a mandatory licensing regime and it is for local authorities to determine whether they wish to licence SEV , whether to limit their numbers and to determine individual licence applications.
