Part 2E+W+SLicensing: disclosure of plans of premises

34Licensing: disclosure of plans of premisesE+W+S

(1)Schedule 4 amends—

(a)the Licensing Act 2003, and

(b)the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 16),

to make provision about the inclusion of plans in public registers kept under those Acts and about the disclosure of certain plans not included in those registers.

(2)The Secretary of State must by regulations make provision as to the form and content of plans for the purposes of any provision of the Licensing Act 2003 or the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 that refers to regulations under this subsection.

(3)The regulations may only include provision for the purpose of restricting the disclosure of information that the Secretary of State considers is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.

(4)The Secretary of State may by regulations specify the amount of the fee that is to accompany an application under the following provisions (which are inserted by Schedule 4)—

(a)paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Licensing Act 2003 (application to replace old plan of premises included in a licensing register);

(b)paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to that Act (application to replace old plan of works included in a licensing register);

(c)paragraph 2 of Schedule 1A to the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (application to replace old plan of premises included in a licensing register).

(5)In subsection (3)—

• “committing or preparing an act of terrorism” includes the use or threat of action which it is reasonable to suspect may be being carried out in the course of, or in the planning or preparation of, an act of terrorism;

• “terrorism” has the same meaning as in the Terrorism Act 2000 (see section 1 of that Act).