Exemptions / Limitations
Under certain circumstances, entertainment (Plays, Dance, Films, Indoor Sporting Events and Boxing or Wrestling Entertainment) is exempt from regulation.
Entertainment and circumstances where authorisation is not required:
- Plays - between 0800 and 2300 each day (where attendance is 500 or less);
- Dance - between 0800 and 2300 each day (where attendance is 500 or less);
- Films - screening of a not for profit film exhibition, held in community premises, between 0800 and 2300 each day (where attendance is 500 or less);
- Indoor Sporting Events - between 0800 and 2300 each day (where attendance is 1000 or less); and
- Boxing or Wrestling - contest/exhibition or display of Greco-Roman wrestling, or freestyle wrestling between 0800 and 2300 each day (where attendance is 1000 or less).
Licensable activities in conjunction with exempt activities, such as sale of alcohol are not exempt, only the specific activities outlined above. For example, a play between 0800 and 2300 with attendance of less than 500 people would not require a licence but any sales of alcohol taking place during the play would still need to be made under authority of a TENs or a premises licence.
Please note: that a Temporary Event Notice can only authorise licensable activities for events with an attendance of 499 people or less, including staff.
Notice period
You must give 10 clear working days’ notice of a Temporary Event.
Alternatively, you may submit a late TENs giving between nine and five clear working days’ notice. Please note that the day on which the TENs is submitted and the date on which the event begins cannot form part of the notice period. Submission of late TENs is limited to two per premises per annum.
