In the nick of time, just days before new mandatory conditions were added to every on-licensed Premises Licence in England & Wales, both the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and Home Office issued guidance on how the new conditions should be interpreted.

Quite why it takes two Government departments to do this, we can only speculate.  This decision becomes even more baffling when you realise that on occasions, the two sets of guidance actually contradict each other!

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