Is membership of pubwatch compulsory in any part of the country and is compulsory membership a good idea?
When the new premise licences were introduced in November 2005 some licensing authorities obtained conditions for licences in their area that required all premises to be members of the pubwatch. Whilst we advised against this, that advice was either ignored or not received. Our reasoning for taking this stance is, because pubwatch is a voluntary activity by premises that hold a premises licence. Consequently it can collapse at very short notice due to a variety of reasons such as lack of funding, people unwilling to take up the offices of the watch or due to general apathy. In the strict term of the law, if this happened in an area where membership was a condition of the licence it is an offence, namely failing to comply with a condition of the licence. We see this as problematic for all concerned. Similarly if a premise is thrown out of a scheme for breach of the rules or refusing to conform to the majority decisions of the watch and such a condition was present the same problem would
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