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Temporary event notices (TENs) introduction
This page contains information about how to serve a temporary event notice (TEN). A temporary event notice allows a premises/property to be used for short term licensable activities such as the sale of alcohol or regulated entertainment subject to certain conditions and replaces the old system of occasional licences and occasional permissions.
Restrictions on TENs
The system for temporary events involves an event organiser (the "premises user") giving a temporary event notice to the licensing authority and copying this to the police.
TENs can be used to authorise relatively small-scale ad hoc events held at premises involving no more than 499 people at any one time.
To serve a TEN you must, no later than 10 working days before the day on which the event is due to start, give duplicate copies of the notice to the Entertainment Licensing Section, together with the fee of £21. You must also give a copy of the notice to West Yorkshire Police no later than 10 working days before the day on which the event is to start. Anyone aged 18 or over can give a maximum of five TENs per year. Personal licence holders can give a maximum of fifty TENs per year. TENs are subject to other limits, as set out below;
- Each event covered by a TEN can last no longer than 96 hours
- No more than 12 TENs can be given for the same premises in any year
- A maximum aggregate duration of the periods covered by TENs at any individual premises of 15 days in any year
- There must be a minimum of 24 hours between events notified by a premises user or associates of that premises user in respect of the same premises
Provided that the criteria set out above are met, only the police may intervene to prevent an event covered by a TEN taking place or agree a modification of the arrangements for such an event and then only on crime prevention grounds.
What next
This page offers a brief insight into how to serve a TEN. If you wish to serve a temporary event notice simply download the notice form available on this page. Please read the form and accompanying guidance notes before you begin. Further guidance and information can be obtained from the Department of Culture Media and Sport website. See the internet link available from this page.
Alternatively if you would like the notice form sending to you in Microsoft Word format so you can fill it out electronically or you would like a hard copy of the form sending in the post please contact us and we will be happy to help.
We have also prepared a guidance document called "Managing a temporary event" (which you can download from this page) which gives helpful advice about how to operate an event in a way which promotes the licensing objectives of:
- prevention of crime and disorder
- public safety
- prevention of public nuisance and the
- protection of children from harm.
Address list
1) Leeds City Council - Entertainment Licensing
Civic Hall
Leeds
LS1 1UR
2) West Yorkshire Police
Robert Patterson
Leeds District Licensing Officer
Millgarth Police Station
Leeds
LS2 7HX
Telephone: 0113 241 4023
Fax: 0113 241 3123