(Meetings are usually open to the
public)
Terms of
Reference
Subject to the Scheme of Delegation
to officers and other provisions set out in Part 3 of the
Constitution, the Committee is empowered:
·
To issue, as
appropriate, licences, permits and consents and to grant
registrations, imposing any conditions, limitations or other
restrictions on such approvals, consents, licences, permissions or
registrations.
·
To determine
whether, and in what manner, to enforce any failure to comply with,
or any other contravention of, any approval, consent, licence,
permission, registration granted or any condition, limitation or
term of such approval, consent, licence, permission or
registration.
·
To determine,
where there is such discretion, whether a charge should be made for
any approval, consent, licence, permit or registration granted and
after receipt of guidance from the Borough Finance Officer to
determine the amount of the charge.
It is also
responsible for:
Hackney
Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles
The licensing of hackney carriages
and private hire vehicles, the licensing of drivers of hackney
carriages and private hire vehicles and the licensing of operators
of hackney carriages and private hire vehicles.
Gaming and
Lotteries
The registration of pool promoters,
the granting of track betting licences, the licensing of
inter-track betting schemes, the grant of permits in respect of
premises with amusement machines, the grant of permits in respect
of premises where amusements with prizes are provided, and the
registration of societies wishing to promote lotteries and the
licensing of persons to collect for charitable and other
causes.
Entertainments
The issue of cinema, cinema club,
theatre and entertainments licences and the licensing of sex shops
and sex cinemas; the licensing of performances of hypnotism and the
licensing of premises for acupuncture, tattooing, ear-piercing and
electrolysis; the issue, amendment or replacement of safety
certificates (whether general or special) for sports grounds and
the issue, cancellation, amendment or replacement of safety
certificates for regulated stands at sports grounds; and the
licensing of pleasure boats and pleasure vessels.
Animals
The licensing of premises for the
breeding of dogs and the licensing of pet shops and other
establishments where animals are bred or kept for the purposes of
carrying on a business; the licensing of zoos, the licensing of
dangerous wild animals and the registration of animal trainers and
exhibitors; the issue of licences for the movement of pigs, the
licensing of the sale of pigs and collecting centres for the
movement of pigs, the issue of licences to move cattle from a
market and the licensing of knackers' yards.
Food
The registration of food business
premises and the registration and licensing of premises for the
preparation of food; the licensing of night cafes and take-away
food shops; the issue of licences to retail butchers' shops
carrying out commercial operations in relation to unwrapped raw
meat and selling or supplying both raw meat and ready-to-eat foods
and the approval of meat product premises and of premises for the
production of minced meat or meat preparations; the approval of
dairy establishments and egg product establishments; the licensing
of dealers in game and the killing and selling of game; and the
approval of fish products premises, dispatch and purification
centres.
Services
The licensing of market and street
trading and the registration of auction and wholesale markets; the
licensing of agencies for the supply of nurses; and the licensing
of scrap yards.
Miscellaneous
The issue of licences authorising the
use of land as a caravan site ("site licences") and the licensing
of the use of moveable dwellings and of camping sites; the grant of
consents for the operation of a loudspeaker; the sanction of use of
parts of buildings for the storage of celluloid; the issue of fire
certificates.
Responsibility for the functions
under any of the relevant statutory provisions within the meaning
of Part I (health, safety and welfare in connection with work, and
control of dangerous substances) of the Health and Safety at Work
etc. Act 1974, to the extent that those functions are discharged
otherwise than in the authority's capacity as an
employer.
·
Responsibility
for the discharge of any function relating to contaminated
land.
·
Responsibility
for the discharge of any function relating to the control of
pollution and the management of air quality.
·
Responsibility
for the following functions under the Berkshire Act 1986, as
indicated in relevant sections of the Act:
·
the prohibition
of parking in front gardens (section 14);
·
the extension
of powers to provide public conveniences (section 18)
·
the
registration of hairdressers and barbers (section 19);
·
the control of
dust from building operations (section 21);
·
the escape of
gas, fumes etc from chimneys (section 22);
·
defective
electrical installations (section 39);
·
fire alarm
systems (section 40); and
·
stacks of
inflammable substances (section 43).