Re: More PEL clarification ZZZZZZ:-)

"Chris Rockcliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Barbara, that was my understanding too.  However the concession was "won"
by
> the CIU for its 16K affiliated clubs by being part of the detail
discussions
> with the DCMS on the Bill right from the start.
>
> I now have the situation of the CIU telling me one thing, the LA telling
me
> another and the wording of the Bill being ambivalent OR even wrong.
>
> "Looks like there's going to be some teething problems", said one LA
person.
> Major root canal work without anaesthesia is more like it - me thinks.

I find it hard to believe that the wording of the Act excludes just the CIU
affiliated clubs - and the wording of the Act itself is the only thing that
we or the courts can go on.

To quote the latest issue of 'Grass Roots', the newsletter of the MU folk
section, 'The Bill extends entertainment licensing across all private and
registered members' clubs...'

It's all very depressing, isn't it?

As a by-the-by, the Act isn't in force yet, so carol singers and everyone
else are safe this year, and apparently mummers are the same as morris
dancers (*I* didn't say that!), and therefore exempt in the future, which,
in a pub, they aren't now!

Barbara