Personal alcohol licence

Applying for a new personal licence

For a new personal licence, you will need to submit the following:

• Application form [171.75KB]  for a personal licence.

• Disclosure of convictions and civil penalties declaration form [112.58KB]

• The correct fee of £37.00 (see How to pay, below).

• Your original qualification certificate.

• Two passport photographs, one of which must be endorsed as a true likeness of the applicant, by a solicitor or notary, a person of standing in the community or any individual with a professional qualification.

• A criminal records disclosure which is no more than 28 days (4 weeks) old. This can be obtained online from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

• A scanned copy of a document demonstrating your entitlement to work in the UK. View the list [102.5KB]  of documents you can use.

The duration of personal licences was made indefinite with effect from 1 April 2015. Any personal licence issued before this date will show an expiry date, while personal licences issued after this date will not have an expiry date shown on the licence.

If this expiry date shown on the licence is before 1 April 2015 the personal licence has lapsed and you will need to apply for a new licence. If it shows an expiry date on or after 1 April 2015 then the expiry date no longer applies.  If you wish to update your licence to remove the expiry date, you will need to follow the same process for amending your licence as set out below.