Scotland - Personal Licence Refresher Training - the fall out begins!
2014
We have previously reported and warned that Scottish personal licence holders must undertake their mandatory refresher training within 5 years of the grant of their licence and then evidence that training to the relevant Licensing Board within 3 months. Failure to take those steps would result in the revocation of the personal licence with the inability to re-apply for 5 years. A significant number of personal licence holders had to complete that re-training before 1 September 2014 and file evidence of the Board by 1 December.
Herald Scotland is today reporting that "an estimated 10,000 people are being notified this week that their "personal licences", required to sell alcohol since 2009, are being revoked for failing to meet legal needs over training. In Glasgow alone, 1300 personal licences, almost one in five, have been revoked. Of these 130 are managers, meaning if the business does not get a new, fully trained-up manager in place within six weeks they will be banned from selling alcohol. In Edinburgh, the figure is around 1000, while in Aberdeen it is close to 600 and almost 700 in the Highlands Council area".