The Regulatory Committee

The Regulatory Committee consists of 11 Councillors.

The Regulatory Committee’s role is:

a.     to oversee the Council’s functions and powers regarding

·         trading standards and consumer protection,

·        animal health and welfare,

·        environmental health ( including Public Health, Control of Pollution (including noise), Contaminated Land, Environmental Protection (including statutory nuisance),

·        Food Acts and related legislation,

·        hackney carriage and private hire,

·        licensable activities under the Licensing Act 2003, Gambling Act 2005 and the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (as amended),

·        cinema, theatre and other public entertainment,

·        house to house and street collections and

·        other miscellaneous regulatory functions not within the remit of any other Council body

·        to hear appeals against the refusal of any licences, decisions taken and conditions imposed in any regulatory matter by any officer or officer panel established for the purpose of carrying out or reviewing any action taken by any officer pursuant to the Chief Executive’s delegated authority to discharge the Council’s regulatory functions and to revoke any licence, permission consent or certificate granted by the Council, except where a separate statutory framework exists.  The Regulatory Committee may exercise these functions by delegation to the Regulatory Sub-Committee.   

b.     to consider and approve detailed regulatory policies and procedures other than those that require approval by Council or fall within the overall executive strategic and policy remit of the Cabinet and to ensure that the detailed regulatory policies and procedures provide a robust framework and criteria within which officers discharge the regulatory functions of the Council pursuance to the Chief Executive’s delegated authority to discharge the Council’s regulatory functions       

The Regulatory Sub-Committee

(a)   A Regulatory Sub-Committee has been established to be responsible for determining individual applications for liquor licensing, gaming permits, public entertainment licenses and cinema licenses within Herefordshire.

(b)   The Regulatory Sub-Committee consists of 3 Councillors who are drawn on a rota basis from the membership of the Regulatory committee,

(c)   The Regulatory Sub-Committee is responsible for determining individual applications for licensable activities under the Licensing Act 2003 and the Gambling Act 2005.

(d)   Regulatory Committee has also delegated responsibility for considering footpath diversions and considering appeals from applicants who have been refused a hackney carriage/private hire dual drivers licence by the Taxi and county Transport Badge Licensing Officers Panel.

(e)   The Panel may also recommend that a licence be revoked and the Sub-Committee has been given delegated powers to consider such recommendations