Fees
The various application Fees due to the Licensing Authority are as follows:
|
RATEABLE VALUE |
BAND |
Application Fee |
Annual Fee |
|
No rateable value to £4,300 |
A |
£100 |
£70 |
|
£4,301 to £33,000 |
B |
£190 |
£180 |
|
£33,001 to £87,000 |
C |
£315 |
£295 |
|
£87,001 to £125,000 |
D |
£450 |
£320 |
|
£125,001 and above |
E |
£635 |
£350 |
A multiplier applied to premises in bands D (x2) and E (x3) where they are exclusively or primarily in the business of selling alcohol (mainly large town and city centre pubs).
Detail Application Fee
Application for a grant or renewal of personal licence
£37.00
Temporary event notice
£21.00
Theft, loss, etc. of premises licence or summary
NOTE: Theft or loss must be reported to the police
£10.50
Application for a provisional statement where premises being built, etc.
£195.00
Notification of change of name or address
£10.50
Application to vary licence to specify individual as premises supervisor
£23.00
Application for transfer of premises licence
£23.00
Interim authority notice following death etc. of licence holder
£23.00
Theft, loss etc. of certificate or summary
NOTE: Theft or loss must be reported to the police
£10.50
Notification of change of name or alteration of rules of club
£10.50
Change of relevant registered address of club
£10.50
Theft, loss etc. of temporary event notice
NOTE: Theft or loss must be reported to the police
£10.50
Theft, loss etc. of personal licence
NOTE: Theft or loss must be reported to the police
£10.50
Duty to notify change of name or address
£10.50
Right of freeholder etc. to be notified of licensing matters
£21.00
Kurnia standard Terms and Conditions
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
COSTS
We charge some matters upon a fixed fee basis and where appropriate this will be the subject of a separate quote. In other cases, our charges will be calculated mainly by reference to the time spent on your file (including travelling) by the staff dealing with this matter charged out at a maximum of £100 per hour. We reserve the right to charge an enhanced rate if the case is one of unusual urgency, complexity or value and importance to you. The charging rates given do not include VAT, which will be additionally payable. Routine letters we write or receive together with routine telephone calls will be charged as units of 1/10th of an hour. All other letters, telephone calls and other time spent on your matter will be charged on a time basis. Our hourly rates are reviewed annually. If you do have any queries about the revised rate please contact us.
DISBURSEMENTS
Disbursements are recharged to our clients at cost. We will generally ask for a cheque to pay any disbursement direct or request immediate payment of a disbursement-only invoice. Disbursements normally payable are court fees, licence application fees, the cost of advertising applications in the newspaper and any courier charges or accommodation expenses which may be necessary. Disbursement only invoices fall due and payable immediately. In some cases failure to pay promptly could delay progress of your case.
MONIES HELD ON ACCOUNT
Where we hold monies on your behalf for any reason and you owe us money in any matter, we reserve the right to use such funds in settlement
ABORTED COSTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
If for any reason your matter does not proceed to completion we will charge you for work done and disbursements incurred.
PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT
It is our standard practice to request new clients to provide some form of assurance as to their ability to pay their estimated bill in advance of work taking place. Our credit control practices require us to review these assurances periodically, even for long established and valued clients. In most circumstances, it will be standard practice to request a payment on account of our estimated costs and for any disbursements.
This payment will be retained on our client bank account until a bill is delivered. Such a payment will be requested at an initial stage before work proceeds from new clients or in respect of cases which are likely to be highly complex and on-going for a long period of time or which require heavy disbursements. We may ask for further payments on account as the matter progresses. Such payments on account will be offset against your final bill but our total costs and disbursements may be more than any money held on account. Where a payment on account is not received, we reserve the right to cease work until payment has been received as requested.
We cannot pay out money on your behalf until we are in possession of cleared funds. Any cheques must therefore be received by us at least seven days before the money is to be paid out. If a longer clearance period is required, we shall advise you nearer the date.
Similarly, if we received cheques for you, they have to be cleared through our bank before we can pay you.
BILLING
Unless otherwise agreed, we shall bill your file on an interim basis for any time or costs incurred since the previous invoice. Interim invoices may be prepared on a monthly basis if the level of charges so warrants, but will, in any event, be at intervals of not less than three months. This way the cost of your matter is spread throughout its duration and will allow you to monitor the amount of your costs incurred and the progress of your case at regular intervals. On completion of your matter, a final bill will be issued.
Once a note of our fees has been rendered to you, either by interim or final bill we require payment within 14 days. We would ask you to appreciate that unlike other conventional businesses, professional services firms are not in a position to take extended credit on their inputs. The highest percentage of our costs is in respect of salaries, which have to be paid on a regular basis. We therefore have to pursue overdue debts in a rigorous but professional manner.
No previously stated disbursement only invoices fall due and payable immediately.
INTEREST ON OVERDUE INVOICES
If a bill is not paid within 14 days of the date of the invoice interest will be charged on the overdue amount at the statutory judgement rate. This is because our fee structures are based on the assumption of prompt client payment.
If invoices are not paid within the stipulated credit period, then we reserve the right to stop work on all matters upon which we are working on your behalf, which will include court attendance. Ultimately, we will look to the directors of a limited company to pay any outstanding invoices personally
We sincerely trust that these procedures will not be necessary, however, they are stated here as a matter of record of our credit control policy.
If there is any reason why payment cannot be made (eg, because the invoice is disputed), then please speak to us straight away. Payment for the non-contentious element of any bill, however, will still be required within the credit period.
YOUR LIABILITY TO US
You are responsible for payment of our bills and disbursements even if someone else has agreed to pay a bill or we have agreed to send a bill to a third party for payment on your behalf or you have the benefit of legal expenses insurance.
PERSONAL GUARANTEE
Where we are acting on any matter for two or more persons such persons shall be jointly and severally liable to us for payment of our bills and disbursements. Where we are acting on behalf of a limited company any director, signing an acceptance on behalf of the company to these terms and conditions hereby personally guarantees payment of all bills and disbursements payable to us by the company so that the director shall be personally liable to us for the same in addition to the liability of the company.
STORAGE OF PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS
After completing the work, we are entitled to keep all your papers and documents while there is money owing to us. We will keep our file of papers (except for any of your papers which you asked to be returned to you) for no more than seven years. We retain the file on the understanding that we have the authority to destroy it seven years after the date of the final bill we send you for this matter. We will not destroy documents you ask us to deposit in safe custody.
If we retrieve papers or documents from storage in relation to continuing or new instructions, we will not normally charge for such retrieval. However, we may make a charge based on time spent producing stored papers or documents to you or another at your request. We may also charge for reading, correspondence or other work necessary to comply with the instructions given by you or on your behalf.
TERMINATION
You may terminate your instructions to us in writing at any time but we will be entitled to keep all your papers and documents while there is money owing to us.
In some circumstances, you may consider we ought to stop acting for you, for example, if you cannot give clear or proper instructions on how we are to proceed, or if it is clear that you have lost confidence in how we are carrying out your work.
We may decide to stop acting for you only with good reason, for example, if you do not pay an interim bill or comply with our request for a payment on account. You are still liable to pay out costs and disbursements incurred up to the date of termination.
AGREEMENT
Unless otherwise agreed, these terms of business apply to any future instructions you give us.
Your continuing instructions will amount to your acceptance of these terms and conditions of business. Even so, we ask you to please sign and date the enclosed copy of these terms and return it to us. We can then be confident that you understand the basis on which we will act for you.