Application for a personal licence
How do you get a Personal Licence?
You will need to apply for a Personal Licence from your local council – that is the one where you live. There are a few steps but it is similar to getting a passport. You will need to do the following:
- Be 18 years or older
- Get the Level 2 Award for Personal License Holders Qualification
- Obtain and complete a Personal License application form to your local council
- Obtain a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. (This is the new version of the CRB check).
- Get two passport sized photos signed by a professional to prove your identity
- Submit the application form, your qualification certificate, your DBS check and two photos to your local council
- Pay the local council application fee of £37
Determination of application for grant
The authority must grant the personal licence if it appears to it that
- the applicant is aged 18 or over,
- he is entitled to work in the United Kingdom,
- he possesses a licensing qualification or is a person of a prescribed description,
- no personal licence held by him has been forfeited in the period of five years ending with the day the application was made, and
- he has not been convicted of any relevant offence or any foreign offence or required to pay an immigration penalty.
The authority must reject the application if it appears to it that the applicant fails to meet the above criterias. If there are unspent convictions the authority must give the chief officer of police for its area a notice to that effect. If the chief officer of police is satisfied that granting the licence would undermine the crime prevention objective, he must, within the period of 14 days beginning with the day he received the notice, give the authority an objection notice.
If the applicant having been
- convicted of an immigration offence,
- convicted of a foreign offence that the authority considers to be comparable to an immigration offence, or
- required to pay an immigration penalty,
- the authority must give the Secretary of State a notice to that effect.
the Secretary of State is satisfied that granting the licence would be prejudicial to the prevention of illegal working in licensed premises, the Secretary of State must, within the period of 14 days beginning with the day the Secretary of State received the notice, give the authority an immigration objection notice.
Where no objection notice or immigration objection notice is given within the period of 14 days, the authority must grant the application. Where there are objections the authority must hold a hearing to consider.
