Consultation outcome

Licensing Act 2003: Community film exhibition consultation

• From: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Ed Vaizey
• Published: 4 July 2013
• Last updated: 19 December 2013 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Consultation on Community Film Exhibition: Government Response

PDF, 254 KB, 18 pages

Impact Assessment

PDF, 473 KB, 12 pages

Detail of outcome

This is the Government’s response to the consultation on whether unnecessary licensing regulation could be removed from small scale film exhibition events in community premises.

The intention being to bolster community entertainment activity and participation by freeing up organisers to put on films without having to fill in licensing paperwork and go through a costly process.

The Impact Assessment has also been updated.

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Original consultation

Summary

A consultation on deregulation and licence requirements for community-based film exhibitions.

This consultation ran from
4 July 2013 to 11:45pm on 28 August 2013

Consultation description

In the Entertainment Deregulation consultation response document publishing in January 2013, we said we would consult further on deregulation for community-based film exhibitions.

This consultation meets our commitment and looks at removal in certain circumstances of the requirement for a licence in England and Wales for film screenings in community venues.

Revised regulation came into force on 06 April 2015.

Documents

Community film exhibition consultation

PDF, 716 KB, 21 pages

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Community film exhibition consultation

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Impact Assessment

PDF, 853 KB, 12 pages

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Published 4 July 2013
Last updated 19 December 2013 + show all updates

1. 19 December 2013

   Final outcome published - 19/12/13

2. 4 July 2013

   First published.