Temporary Event Notices
BIIAB learning outcome 9: permitted temporary activities, standard and late TENs, annual limits and objection routes.
How to study for the APLH assessment
Build the licensing structure first, then practise separating people, premises, permissions, duties, offences, exceptions and authority powers.
Core concepts
Concept 1
A TEN can authorise licensable activities for a temporary event within statutory limits without a premises licence for those activities.
Exam cue: Count personal-licence-holder and non-holder notices separately, remembering that late notices count within the overall total.
Concept 2
Current limits include no more than 499 people at one time, a maximum event period of 168 hours and annual limits for each premises and each premises user.
Exam cue: Check people, duration, premises-day totals and the gap between consecutive events before treating a TEN as valid.
Concept 3
Police and the local authority exercising environmental-health functions may object on licensing-objective grounds, with more limited options for a late TEN.
Exam cue: Distinguish a standard TEN given at least ten clear working days before the event from a late TEN.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Using the temporary COVID-era increase instead of the restored current premises limits.
Guardrail: Do not rely on former renewal rules, temporary TEN limits, Scottish licensing law, informal workplace custom or a broad exception where the statute is narrow.
Counting only customers and excluding staff from the 499-person maximum.
Guardrail: Do not rely on former renewal rules, temporary TEN limits, Scottish licensing law, informal workplace custom or a broad exception where the statute is narrow.
Assuming a TEN needs a DPS or that every sale must be authorised by a personal licence holder.
Guardrail: Do not rely on former renewal rules, temporary TEN limits, Scottish licensing law, informal workplace custom or a broad exception where the statute is narrow.
Memory anchors
User Limits
A personal licence holder may give up to 50 TENs a year; another individual may give up to 5.
Late TEN Limits
Late TENs are capped at 10 for a personal licence holder and 2 for another individual, within the overall totals.
Premises Limits
A premises may be covered by no more than 15 TENs and 21 total event days in a calendar year.
Event Limits
A TEN event may last no more than 168 hours and may involve no more than 499 people at one time, including staff.
Separate Events
Separate TEN events by the same premises user at the same premises require at least 24 hours between them.
Objections
Police and environmental health may object on licensing-objective grounds; a late TEN cannot be modified through a hearing after an objection.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What does a valid TEN authorise?
Who may give a TEN?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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