Apply for a personal licence
Information on Personal Licences
- You can only hold one personal licence at a time.
- Not everyone supplying alcohol needs a personal licence.
- Each sale of alcohol must be approved by a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) who holds a personal licence. For example, a sales assistant doesn’t need a licence, but the DPS, like a manager, must have one.
- Personal licences last indefinitely unless you give them up, they are suspended, revoked, or a court orders otherwise. You don’t need to renew your personal licence anymore, as this requirement was removed by the Deregulation Act 2015.
- If you move or change your name, contact us to update your licence. We remain your licensing authority even if you move away.
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Documents to be included with application
- debit or credit card to pay the fee.
- 2 photographs, one of which is endorsed as a true likeness by a solicitor or notary, a person of standing in the community or any individual with a professional qualification.
- Licensing qualification. This requirement is waived if you are a person of a prescribed description (i.e. a member of the company of the Master, Wardens, Freemen and Commonalty of the Mistery of the Vintners of the City of London, a person operating under a licence granted by the University of Cambridge or a person operating premises under a licence granted by the Board of the Green cloth) and you are able to provide relevant documentation.
- A criminal conviction certificate or a criminal record certificate. This will be invalid if more than one month old.
- A completed disclosure of criminal convictions and declaration form.
- Proof of my right to work in the United Kingdom
Once the application fee and documentation has been received we will process and issue your licence. If you have any relevant offences this will be forwarded to the police for consideration. If the police object, you have the opportunity to request the application to be put forward to the Licensing and Regulatory sub committee for determination.