Unexpected License and Permits for different activities in UK

[jonathan01n]

I know the title is a bit vague but this is my best title I can have.
Basically what I mean is do you ever heard some license and permits in UK - Which is England-Wales-Scotland and Northern Ireland that you don't ever heard about and never expected to have. Maybe I give some examples it will be clearer.

I never heard about you need to have a license to fish in the rivers in England.
I know TV license , some European Countries have that too.

I never knew that you need to have a specific license to sell hot food at night in some place.

I never heard about you need a license to give leaflet in the Belfast city centre.

Can anyone name some license you never heard about or do not expected one in UK.

For Activities you normally expected to have a license but currently not.
Driving a private pleasure boat in UK. You don't need a license and test!

 

[ComUtoR]

I had a dog license. Not sure if you still need one.
Need a license to drive a train.

 

[IanXC]

Hairdressing is always one that makes me think!

In some local authorities a licence is required, on others it is not.

 

[AlterEgo]

Have a look at some of the licences Natural England issue. Bat licences for example (the creature!).

 

[DaveNewcastle]

A Licence can be given by anyone (including a corporate body, charity, gov't agency, etc) to anyone, which confers a 'right' or 'permission' to do something. I have lodgers in part of my home, and they are not tenants but I have given them a 'licence' to use the rooms to live there.
The most important condition to giving a Licence is that the person giving it must have the right to do so - for example, if it is a right to do something on land, then they must already have that right themselves, and must not be prevented from re-assigning that right.

My local authority will provide Licences for the distribution of flyers in the city centre, for maintaining council land, for trading in public spaces (market stalls), for street cafes, to moor a vessel on a river bank, 'sex establishments', and the various permissions under the 2003 Licensing Act including wrestling, showing film or video (cinema). Landowners will licence grazing rights, the Environment Agency may licence the shooting of certain animal or bird species or the destruction of certain plant species.
There are Licences to move and store toxic materials, licences for landfill sites, licences to provide financial advice and services and licences to provide some 'professional' advice.
On the other hand, some services which are regulated either by government and agency or an independant body do not involve a Licence but will give some other forms of authority to its practitioner (e.g. an electrician or a barrister will both refer to a Certificate and not a Licence).

Hope this helps

 

[takno]

Have a look at some of the licences Natural England issue. Bat licences for example (the creature!).

You have to have a licence to be a bat?

 

[FQ]

Driving a private pleasure boat in UK. You don't need a license and test!

[Pedant mode] Technically you do. To go on waterways owned by canal and river trust you need to have a license. If you own your own boat then this needs to be paid, even if you live on the waterway in question. If hiring a boat the license fee is included in the cost (I presume - I've never had to hire one).

 

[AlterEgo]

You have to have a licence to be a bat?

Almost as left field - bizarrely, you need a licence to *harm* bats!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bats-apply-for-a-mitigation-licence

 

[AlterEgo]

£175 to "bury" someone at sea: https://www.gov.uk/burial-at-sea

 

[Cowley]

You don't need a license to have children (just thought I'd get that old cliche in).

 

[Calthrop]

Almost as left field - bizarrely, you need a licence to *harm* bats!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bats-apply-for-a-mitigation-licence

“Harming bats” – mind irresistibly drawn to the late Auberon Waugh, author / journalist / political-and-social commentator, and son of the renowned novelist Evelyn Waugh. Auberon was, I gather, “in his private and personal capacity” a fairly agreeable chap -- certainly nicer than his dad, who – though a very talented writer – is generally remembered as, personal-dealings-wise, one of the nastiest people who ever lived. However, Waugh junior was on the far right-wing in politics; and a devout and conservative Catholic in religion -- and in his writings, tended to be very full of hate and scorn toward opposing world-views. He had no love of “the brute creation”, and had a particular animus against “greenies / environmentalists / tree-huggers”; citing Genesis 1:28: “... God said to them...have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth”.

Waugh harboured an especial loathing for bats, which struck him as being nasty creatures; and which had an annoying wish to share his country home, with him and his family. He wrote of this matter, and of his efforts to rid the place of the horrid beasts by any means possible – he recommended the use of tennis racquets against them when they were flying. He expressed his general position here, against conservationists and conservation-legislators, as – “OK, you worthless persons – I challenge you to come along and do your worst to me”. (To the best of my knowledge, such a showdown never in fact happened.)

I love the natural world in general, and am very fond of bats; and Auberon Waugh strikes me as having been overall, an odious individual; but I feel a grudging respect for him for not having been afraid to speak his mind, or to air widely-very-unpopular opinions. I have no doubt that if things had come to a head, he would have accepted going to prison for bat-persecution; every step of that way, verbally and written-ly mordantly savaging and rubbishing his opponents. Can’t help liking the imagined scenario of his being still around today, and discovering the possibility of applying for a “mitigation licence” to harm bats – he’d have been onto that, from his own angle, in a flash.

 

[DaleCooper]

You don't need a license to have children (just thought I'd get that old cliche in).

... but it helps if you're licentious.

 

[ASharpe]

Back when it was British Waterways you needed a licence to cycle along the towpath. I doubt it was enforced though.

 

[MotCO]

Pedant Alert. A LicenCe is the bit of paper or plastic which gives you permision to do something. Someone who provides the bit of plastic or paper licenSes you to do it.

Glad to get that off my chest

 

[Busaholic]

“Harming bats” – mind irresistibly drawn to the late Auberon Waugh, author / journalist / political-and-social commentator, and son of the renowned novelist Evelyn Waugh. Auberon was, I gather, “in his private and personal capacity” a fairly agreeable chap -- certainly nicer than his dad, who – though a very talented writer – is generally remembered as, personal-dealings-wise, one of the nastiest people who ever lived. However, Waugh junior was on the far right-wing in politics; and a devout and conservative Catholic in religion -- and in his writings, tended to be very full of hate and scorn toward opposing world-views. He had no love of “the brute creation”, and had a particular animus against “greenies / environmentalists / tree-huggers”; citing Genesis 1:28: “... God said to them...have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth”.

Waugh harboured an especial loathing for bats, which struck him as being nasty creatures; and which had an annoying wish to share his country home, with him and his family. He wrote of this matter, and of his efforts to rid the place of the horrid beasts by any means possible – he recommended the use of tennis racquets against them when they were flying. He expressed his general position here, against conservationists and conservation-legislators, as – “OK, you worthless persons – I challenge you to come along and do your worst to me”. (To the best of my knowledge, such a showdown never in fact happened.)

I love the natural world in general, and am very fond of bats; and Auberon Waugh strikes me as having been overall, an odious individual; but I feel a grudging respect for him for not having been afraid to speak his mind, or to air widely-very-unpopular opinions. I have no doubt that if things had come to a head, he would have accepted going to prison for bat-persecution; every step of that way, verbally and written-ly mordantly savaging and rubbishing his opponents. Can’t help liking the imagined scenario of his being still around today, and discovering the possibility of applying for a “mitigation licence” to harm bats – he’d have been onto that, from his own angle, in a flash.

'Bron' Waugh was an interesting person, though he certainly saw the world in a very black and white way. For a right-winger, he was often highly critical of the police, and in particular what he saw as the persecution of motorists, even though he never drove himself, preferring his ancient bike instead. He even maintained this stance when his own sister was struck and killed by a drunken driver near Camden Lock.

His stance on environmental issues, though, may in part have stemmed from his hatred of the Goldsmith family, especially James, the founder of the Referendum Party: Teddy Goldsmith, James's brother, headed the Ecology Party. If Bron had lived long enough no doubt his hatred would have extended to Zac, Teddy's son.