North Ayrshire Council

North Ayrshire Licensing Board is the statutory licensing authority responsible for all Alcohol and Betting Licences in North Ayrshire. The Board is constituted under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 and Gambling Act 2005.

North Ayrshire Council elects Councillors to be Members of the Board. The Convenor of the Licensing Board is Councillor Ronnie McNicol. The Clerk to the Licensing Board is the council's Senior Legal Services Manager, Aileen Craig.

Please read the North Ayrshire Licensing Board Guide to Information (Word, 75kb).

View the current list of Premises, Premises Licence Holders and Premises Managers in North Ayrshire (Excel, 102kb) as of 10 January 2020.

Licensing Board Dates

Statement of Reasons

If the Licensing Board is asked to issue a statement of reasons explaining a decision, in addition to notifying affected parties. Please view our statement of reasons page for more information.

Licensing Policy Statement

The  Licensing  Board  has  adopted  a Licensing Policy Statement under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 for the period 2018-22:

The documents which the Board considered before adopting the Licensing Policy Statement 2018-22 were::

• (a) Alcohol Facts and figures (Word, 22kb)
• (b) Traffic Light Chart (Excel, 21kb)
• (c) Monitoring Report 2018 (Alcohol-specific Deaths) (Excel 200kb)
• (d) Alcohol Related Harm in Scotland 2016 (PDF, 137kb)
• (e) Alcohol Information - North Ayrshire (PDF, 900kb)
• (f) Alcohol Outlet and Harm (PDF, 255kb)
• (g) Licensing Indicators (Excel, 2mb)
• (h) Alcohol Statistics (Scotland and NA) (Excel, 16kb)
• (i) Alcohol-related crimes in NA (Police)(Excel, 17kb)
• (j) Fires and Alcohol-related incidents (Word, 209kb)
• (k) Premises Licences in North Ayrshire (Excel, 13kb)
• (l) NHSAA - Response to LPS consultation (Word, 51kb)
• (m) AFS - Response to LPS consultation (PDF, 323kb)
• (n)  AFS - Alcohol Outlet Availability and Harm in North Ayrshire (PDF, 704kb)
• (o) LLF - Response to LPS consultation (PDF, 80kb)
• (p) Equalities Screening (Word, 90kb)

Documents (a) to (k) relate to the proposed Overprovision policy

Documents (l) to (o) are the submissions made by respondents to the consultation process

Document (p) was completed as part of the board's legal duty under the Equality Act 2010

The Board also considered:

• Draft Licensing Policy Statement
• North Ayrshire Licensing Board Meeting Agenda
• North Ayrshire Licensing Board Report
• North Ayrshire Licensing Board report - Paper Apart

Overprovision

The Board may refuse a licence due to an overprovision of licensed premises in any one area.

The  Overprovision assessment for the Licensing Policy Statement 2018-22 is contained in the background documents listed above, mainly (k) Premises Licences in North Ayrshire (Excel, 13kb)

Standard Conditions

When premises are granted a new licence, these are subject to a set of conditions. Standard Conditions are reviewed by the council and a new edition of the Conditions is published.

Premises are only controlled by the set of Conditions it was given at the time the licence was granted. Your licence is not affected if the Board publishes a new edition. Our Standard Conditions:

• Edition 5 - amended 18 March 2014 (Word, 134kb)
• Edition 5 - amended 1 September 2009 (Word, 160kb)
• Edition 4 - amended 23 June 2009 (Word, 155kb)
• Edition 3 - amended 10 February 2009 (Word, 156kb)
• Edition 2 - amended 2 December 2008 (Word, 131kb)
• Edition 1 - adopted 20 May 2008 (Word, 127kb)

Please note: the Licensing Board may apply the newest edition to older Licences - this might happen if:

• during Review procedure - the Board might uphold a complaint against the Premises and decide to vary some of the Licence Conditions
• during Variation proceedings (where the licence holder asks the Board to change part of the licence) the Board may decide to update the particular Premises' conditions to the newest edition

In either case the individual Licence Holder can make representations to the Board.

Signs and Notices

The following are mandatory signs and notices under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005. If you are unsure as to which signs you are required to display, in relation to your Licence, please contact the Licensing Office.

• Section 110 Notice (Word, 24kb)
• Challenge 25 (PDF, 102kb)
• Challenge 25 Staff Declaration (PDF, 22kb)
• Agent Sales Warning (PDF, 128kb)
• Alcohol Related Advice (Word 24kb)
• Local Neighbourhood (Word 24kb)
• No Drinking in Public Places (PDF, 59kb)
• No Entry under 18s (Word 24kb)
• Offsale on sale (Word, 24kb)
• Outdoor Drinking Area (Word, 24kb)
• Premises Manager Authorisation Notice (Word 24kb)
• Refusals List (Word, 72kb)
• Staff Training Record (PDF, 68kb)
• Toilet and Capacity checks (PDF, 492kb)

Objections and Complaints about Licensed Premises

The Board has stated advice (PDF, 110kb) on making comments and complaints. How to make a Complaint/Premises Licence review application (Word, 22kb) to the Licensing Board, under Section 36 of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005.

Mainstreaming Equality and Equality Outcomes

Information on the Board's equality outcomes and the progress it has made to mainstream equality is contained in the Board's

Equality and Mainstreaming Report 2013-2017 and Equality Outcomes Report 2017-2021 (PDF, 151kb) and Equality and Mainstreaming Report 2017-2019 (PDF, 135kb)

Minimum unit pricing compliance statistics

• 2018 statistics (PDF, 13kb)

Annual Functions Report under Section 9A of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005

• Financial Year 2018-2019 (Word, 21kb)

• Financial Year 2017-2018 (Word, 18kb)

Annual Financial Report under Section 9B of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005

• Financial Year 2016-2017 (Excel, 25kb)