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You usually need a licence from PPL PRS to play live or recorded music in public - includes playing background music at your business, and staging live music or theatre productions.

Apply for a Youth Mobility Scheme visa to live and work in the UK if you’re from a participating country - fees, eligibility, how to apply.

• Overview

  You can apply for a Youth Mobility Scheme visa if you: want to live and…

• Eligibility

  If you’re from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea You can…

• Documents you must provide

  When you apply you’ll need to provide: a valid passport or other document…

• Apply

  Check which documents you’ll need to apply. You’ll also have to pay the…

• Extend your visa

  You can only apply to extend your Youth Mobility Scheme visa if you’re…

Information on whether you need approval to put on certain types of regulated entertainment.

• Updated: 26 March 2015

• Updated: 16 September 2020

Apply for indefinite leave to remain if you have an Innovator Founder or Innovator visa - fees, who's eligible, how to apply.

Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.

• Updated: 1 April 2026

• Updated: 6 February 2025

Residential Properly Tribunal Decision of Judge Tildesley OBE and Mr S Wheeler MCIEH CEnvH on date 17 June 2025

• Updated: 15 July 2025

This guidance is to support local authorities in administering the pubs and live music venues business rates relief.

• Updated: 18 February 2026

How DCMS and the Gambling Commission are working together to deliver an appropriate programme of work to evaluate the impact of the Gambling Act Review.

• Updated: 5 December 2024