Section 10 - Rights of Entry and Inspection

Question 1

Name 5 authorised personnel

Answer 1

1. Police officer
2. Fire officer
3. Health & Safety officer
4. Environmental Health officer
5. Licensing officer

Question 2

What are the rights of the authorised personnel?

Answer 2

Inspect licensed premises to assess its effects on the licensing objectives

Question 3

Apart from licensed premises, what other premises can authorised personnel enter?

Answer 3

1. a premise which a current premise licence application relates
2. Premises under a provisional statement
3. Premises where a TEN has been served

Question 4

When can the police access and search, at any time, a premises?

Answer 4

When they suspect that an offence against licensing law has been, is being or is about to be committed

Question 5

When the police suspect that an offence against licensing law has been, is being or is about to be committed, do they require a warrant to enter?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

Can any authorised personnel access and search, at any time, a premises?

Answer 6

No, only police when they suspect that an offence against licensing law has been, is being or is about to be committed

Question 7

When can an HMRC officer enter the licensed premises? provide an example

Answer 7

To remove goods ‘liable to forfeiture’

i.e. Smuggled goods and goods where the appropriate duty has not been paid

Question 8

If the HMRC want to search the premises at night time, what would they need?

Answer 8

accompanied by a police officer

Question 9

Relating to inspections, what is an offence (on part of the premises user)?

Answer 9

To obstruct any police officer at any time from entering the premises to carry out their duties