Members of the Committee are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests, in connection with any item on the agenda and state the nature of the interest.

Members of the Committee were asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests, in connection with any item on the agenda and state the nature of the interest.

No such declarations were made.

To approve the accuracy of the minutes of the meeting held on 18 March 2020.

Resolved – That the accuracy of the minutes of the meeting of the Licensing, Health and Safety and General Purposes Committee held on 18 March 2020 be approved.

To approve the accuracy of the minutes of the meetings of the Licensing Panels held on 15 November 2019, 13 December 2019, 20 December 2019, 20 December 2019 (reconvened meeting from 13 December 2019), 24 January 2020, 31 January 2020, 14 February 2020, 13 March 2020, 12 June 2020 and 24 July 2020.

Resolved – That the accuracy of the minutes of the meetings of the Licensing Panel held on 15 November 2019, 13 December 2019, 20 December 2019, 20 December 2019 (reconvened meeting from 13 December 2019), 24 January 2020, 31 January 2020, 14 February 2020, 13 March 2020, 12 June 2020 and 24 July 2020 be approved.

The Director of Law and Governance submitted a report to enable the Regulatory and General Purposes Committee to establish a Regulatory Panel, the Terms of Reference of which were approved by Council on 28 September 2020.

The Legal Advisor to the Committee advised that the Constitution as approved by Council requires the establishment of the Regulatory Panel with a membership of between 3 and 5 members with the allocation of seats according to the size of the political groups.

Standing Order 4.2 required that for each Committee or Sub-Committee including the Regulatory Panel, the Council may appoint up to a maximum of half (50%) the number of substitutes in respect of each political group as that group holds ordinary seats on that committee or subcommittee.  In terms of all the permutations provided within the report, each of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Groups would be entitled to one substitute member.

On a motion by the Chair and seconded by Councillor L Rowlands it was -

Resolved –

(1)  That Regulatory Panel be appointed with the following Terms of Reference until amended or otherwise changed by this Committee and until such time as a new Panel is appointed:

The Regulatory Panels will consist of five (5) members of the Regulatory and General Purposes Committee, politically balanced, with responsibility for the Council’s functions to deal with applications, determinations and reviews of licences or registrations, and any related matter, in respect of any licensed activity that is the responsibility of the Authority (other than under the Licensing Act 2003 or the Gambling Act 2005).

(2)  That the size of the Regulatory Panel, having regard to the options referred to in paragraph 5.5 of the report be comprised of 5 Members with the political ratio of 2 Conservative (1 substitute), 2 Labour (1 substitute) and 1 Liberal Democrat (1 substitute).

(3)  That the Monitoring Officer be authorised as proper officer to carry out the wishes of the Group Leaders in allocating Members to membership and substitute membership of the Regulatory Panel.

(4)  That further to nominations submitted the following Members be appointed accordingly to the Regulatory Panel:

2 Conservative  1 Substitute

Councillor A Hodson  Councillor M Collins

Councillor S Williams

2 Labour

Councillor A Jones  Councillor J Stapleton

Councillor G Davies

1 Liberal Democrat

Councillor D Mitchell  Councillor A Corkhill