A Public Entertainment Licence is required where the public are admitted for the use of facilities for the purpose of entertainment or recreation. More details can be found in the Public Entertainment Resolution below. The following activities would require a licence:
- Beauty Treatments (including Teeth Whitening, Nail Salons and massages)
- Billiard, snooker and pool halls
- Firework and/or bonfire displays (for fee paying and non-fee paying public displays)
- Circuses, Carnivals and Fun Fairs, including merry-go-rounds, roundabouts, swings, switchback railways, skittle alleys, coconut shies, hoopla’s, shooting galleries, mechanical riding, driving or boating apparatus, or anything similar to any of the foregoing
- Public dance halls including disco dancing establishments
- Leisure and sports centres (to include wrestling, boxing, cage fighting and martial arts events)
- Ice Rinks, Indoor Skate Parks
- Sun Tanning Premises
- Premises used for laser displays or laser games or paint ball games
- Any public shows of any description whatever (including agricultural shows, flower shows and displays)
- Premises used for health and fitness activities, including gymnasia and saunas
- Indoor Play Areas for Children
- Indoor or open air music concerts (including live band performances, electronic music and musical shows)
- Water sports (including, Wake Boarding, Water Skiing, Sail Boarding, canoeing and Jet Skiing activities)
- Indoor sports Activities (to include Go Carting, Indoor Climbing, Trampolines and bungee catapulting or similar)
- Theatre Performances (to include any play, dramatisation, concert or hypnotism act or comedy act)
- Mechanical Bowling Alleys
- Any activity involving shooting or archery
- Community Centres
- Escape Rooms (including puzzle and breakout rooms)
Download the Public Entertainment Resolution.
