Citation and Commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Licensing Act 2003 (Personal licence: relevant offences) (Amendment) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 16th September 2005.

Amendment to the Licensing Act 2003

2.Schedule 4 to the Licensing Act 2003(personal licence: relevant offences) shall be modified by substituting for the entries in paragraphs 18 and 19 the following—

“ 18. A sexual offence, being an offence —

(a) listed in Part 2 of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 ( 2 ) , other than the offence mentioned in paragraph 95 (an offence under section 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 (procuring others to commit homosexual acts));

(b) an offence under section 8 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (intercourse with a defective);

(c) an offence under section 18 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (fraudulent abduction of an heiress).

19. A violent offence, being any offence which leads, or is intended or likely to lead, to a person’s death or to physical injury to a person, including an offence which is required to be charged as arson (whether or not it would otherwise fall within this definition). ”