Catalogue description Home Office: Liquor (LIQ Symbol Series) Files

The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number, the sequence repeating for successive transfers. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in LIQ (1960) 1/8/36) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus, the full departmental reference of a file listed as LIQ (1960) 1/8/36 would be LIQ/60 1/8/36.

The Home Office was involved in the licensing legislation of all establishments that cater for the consumption of alcohol (ie places of entertainment, clubs, hotels and on and off licensed premises), the setting of rules on permitted hours of opening and closing, the prescription of forms of licence issued under the authority of local magistrates and police, the granting and suspension of licences, compensation levy, acquisition of licensed premises and special hour certificates.