Separate licence indicators
AALS Inspector Guidance Note - IGN 1.01
- Version No & date: 1 - 23/04/2009
- Review date: 04/2012
Issue: A provider already has a licence to operate activities but they also use a second base (or more) from which they operate activities. Is more than one licence required?
The following primary indicators may help in making a decision.
| Separate Licence |
One Licence |
- Same provider has control over this second base for a period of 28 days or more; and
- this second base is operating simultaneously with the first; and
- the main function of this base during this period is for instructing or leading adventure activities, even if licensable activities operate only once during this period.
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- Same provider has control over this second base but always for periods of less than 28 consecutive days; or
- this second base is operating whilst the first venue is closed; or
- the main function of this base when not in use for activity provision is, for example, equipment storage, youth hostel or occasional 'out station'.
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If a decision is still unclear then the following secondary indicators may help in deciding what would be appropriate. Note however that some of these may not be relevant.
| Separate Licences |
One Licence |
- Separate workforce at each base;
- Separate operating procedures;
- Separate equipment stock;
- Venues are 'distant' - one from the other;
- Separate booking arrangements.
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- Single, permanent workforce operating between both bases;
- Common operating procedures;
- Common equipment stock;
- Venue is in 'close' geographical proximity;
- One central booking office.
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Separate licences require separate inspections. This is a requirement of the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004.
Examples of where separate licences would be required:
- a company or provider that expands and opens up another centre;
- a large organisation operating a number of fixed and largely independent 'summer camps' throughout the summer, ie for 28 days or more.
Examples of where one licence would be required:
- residential centre where students are bussed to the centre’s sailing base;
- local authority centre which owns a mountain hut which the centre uses on some of its courses;
- A large organisation where the management is controlled centrally but which uses a number of separate 'summer camps', none of which are open for more than 28 days.
