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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-12B",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/17",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The provision of entertainment consisting of a performance of live music is not to be regarded as the provision of regulated entertainment for the purposes of this Act, provided that—\n(a) the place where the performance is provided is not licensed under this Act (or is so licensed only for the provision of late night refreshment) but is a workplace as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992,\n(b) the performance takes place in the presence of an audience of no more than 500 persons, and\n(c) the performance takes place between 8am and 11pm on the same day.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12B and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2012) by Live Music Act 2012 (c. 2), ss. 3(4), 4(2); S.I. 2012/2115, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 12B(b) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Legislative Reform (Entertainment Licensing) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3253), arts. 1(1), 3(5)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/schedule/1/paragraph/12B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:23.457524+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}