New Specifically Featured Leisure tariff applies to in-person and streamed DJ units.
Guess what? One thing is about to grow to be dearer. Who would have thought it? On this case it’s the worth you need to pay for taking part in music in your bar, in sure circumstances. Music licensing physique PPL PRS have introduced a brand new Specifically Featured Leisure Tariff which will probably be phased in over a seven yr interval, starting this January.
The brand new tariff applies to any occasion throughout which the enjoying of recorded music is a featured attraction – discos, DJ units, and different dance occasions all fall throughout the tariff’s remit. The PPL PRS internet web page lists quite a few hyperlinks to a number of the most complicated steering and FAQ paperwork BarLifeUK have ever learn, nevertheless it a nutshell it appears that evidently bars will now must pay £0.88 per hour of music for each 25 visitors attending the occasion, so 50 individuals listening to a 2 hour DJ set would price £3.52. for instance.
Nevertheless along with the price, the tariff locations accountability on venues to rely visitors out and in of occasions as they progress, and the steering is stuffed with gray areas corresponding to multi-room venues making judgements about whether or not visitors in numerous components of the constructing can hear the music clearly sufficient to be having fun with it, and due to this fact be included within the tariff cost bodycount.
You’ll be able to learn full, and baffling, documentation on the brand new tariff, which, by the way, was constructed with settlement with UK Hospitality and the British Beer and Pub Affiliation, on the PPL PRS web site right here.
