Regulated entertainment exemptions

Regulated entertainment means entertainment that needs some form of licensing permission such as a:

Premises licence
Club premises certificate
Temporary event notice

The following are regulated entertainment. However there are exemptions in place in some circumstances. This means you don't need any form of licensing permission to provide them:

Live or recorded music
Plays and performance of dance
Indoor sporting events
Boxing and wrestling
Films

Live or recorded music

A licence is not required to stage a performance of live music, or the playing of recorded music if:

it takes place between 8am and 11pm
it takes place at an alcohol on-licensed premises
the audience is no more than 500 people

You also don’t need a licence:

to put on unamplified live music at any place between the same hours
to put on amplified live music at a workplace between the same hours for an audience of no more than 500 people

Other exemptions include:

places of public worship, village halls, church halls and other similar buildings
schools
hospital
local authority premise
incidental music - music that is incidental to other activities that aren’t classed as regulated entertainment

Plays and performance of dance

A licence is not required to stage a performance of a play or a performance of dance if:

it takes place between 8am and 11pm
the audience is no more than 500 people

Indoor sporting events

A licence is not required at an indoor sporting event if:

it takes place between 8am and 11pm
the number of spectators is not more than 1000 people

Boxing and wrestling

There are no exemptions, you will need a licence to stage boxing, wrestling and mixed martial arts.

Films

There are exemptions from the need for a licence for film entertainment including for:

places of public worship, village halls, church halls and other similar buildings
education
incidental film – moving pictures that are incidental to other activities that aren’t classed as regulated entertainment
television broadcasts