The Hammersmith unit spends £115,000 a year on licence fees, and employs two people to deal with the paperwork.Under the proposed law, regulation may become still more onerous.
Interestingly, publishers and songwriter collecting societies have acknowledged this when it comes to paying songwriter royalties, with a stream requiring a mechanical licence (which historically covers per-unit record sales, ie reproduction) as well as a performing rights licence (which covers public performance including TV and radio broadcasts).
Design lifetime of the units was 30 years, and the operational licence had been limited to that term.
One example is that BBC Worldwide will stop making games based on its intellectual property – it will close down a games production unit in Los Angeles, although it will still look to licence games and strike partnerships.
Around 30% of wine sold off-licence goes for less than 45p a unit, estimates Ian Anderson of Accolade Wines, Britain's largest wine supplier.
"The boys give me the licence to do what I do, we work tirelessly as a unit and that is what it is all about - just being out there as a team and enjoying every moment as a team.
As England's chief nursing officer, Jane Cummings, disclosed to the committee, the commission – acting on NHS England's clinical advice – has already refused a licence to operate for a private provider that wanted to open a new unit.
This approach has been taken to allow large multiple unit premises, such as a pleasure park, track or shopping mall, to obtain discrete premises licences, where appropriate.
Only 64 water bottling plants have the licence to supply drinking water to Delhi and NCR, whereas several illegally packaged water bottling units are operating in these Delhi NCR areas.
Health ministers want the industry toremove 1bn units from supermarket and off-licence shelves by the end of 2015 to help cut alcohol-related illnesses and deaths.
