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• Alcohol and Entertainment Licences
• Licence - animals
• Licence - gambling premises
• Licence - caravan and camp sites
• Licence - explosives
• Registration - hairdresser
• Licence - house-to-house collections
• Registration - lotteries
• Registration - scrap metal site and motor salvage operator
• Licence - licences granted by other organisations
• Licence - alcohol and entertainment - personal
• Licence - storage of petroleum
• Licence - alcohol and entertainment - premises
• Licence - weighbridge operator
• Licence - sex shops and sex cinemas
• Licence (personal) - tattooists, piercing and electrolysis
• Licence (premises) - tattooists, piercing and electrolysis
• Licence - street café
• Licence - street collections
• Licence - street trading
• Sunday Trading
• Taxis - Hackney Carriages

Certain licences are granted by other organisations. These include:

• Consumer credit
• Door supervisor
• Licence to play music in public

Consumer credit

The Consumer Credit Act 1974 requires most businesses that offer goods or services on credit or lend money to consumers to be licensed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Trading without a licence is a criminal offence and can result in a fine and/or imprisonment. The OFT deals with all applications for consumer credit licences.

• Visit the OFT website for more information

Door supervisors

All door supervisors in Bracknell Forest must hold a Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence. It is against the law to work as a door supervisor without an SIA licence. Locally-issued licence, badges and registration schemes are no longer valid.

If you are front-line staff, you must be over 18, pass an identity and criminal record check, and have the right SIA-approved qualification in order to get an SIA licence.

If you are non-front line staff, such as manager or supervisor, you will need to pass a criminal record check and an identity check. You will not need to take training. The SIA will also look at three other criteria: mental health, the right to work, and any evidence of relevant criminal activity.

• Visit the SIA website for more information about training and to apply for a licence

Licence to play music in public

If you use any equipment to play recorded music (such as tapes or CDs) in your premises for the benefit of your customers then you will almost certainly require a licence from Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) and/or a licence from The Performing Rights Society (PRS).

• View the PRS at a glance leaflet for more information about which licences you may need.

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