Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Principal Licensing Officer recommending the adoption of amended licensing conditions written in accordance with the ‘Model Conditions for Pet Vending Licensing 2013’.

RECEIVED the report of the Principal Licensing Officer.

NOTED

1.  The introduction by the Principal Licensing Officer, including:

a.  Before granting licences to pet vendors, the licensing authority must be satisfied that set criteria were met. Greater clarification had been provided on what was expected, and the new information was taken into account in the revised model conditions appended to the report.

b.  If adopted, the new standard conditions would be attached to all new pet shop licences issued from 1 November 2015 and all renewals from 1 January 2016.

2.  Members’ debate, and responses to questions raised, including that further details regarding inoculation requirements for cats would be investigated and circulated to members.

AGREED that the Licensing Committee noted and approved that the Council’s amended licensing conditions written in accordance with the ‘Model Conditions for Pet Vending Licensing 2013’ published by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health attached to the report, be adopted to form this authority’s standard conditions attached to pet shop licences issued under the Pet Animals Act 1951, with effect from 1 January 2016.