Licensing authority 10 4 Local council is licensing authority (1) The council for the area that includes the site in which a travelling funfair is to be operated is the licensing authority for the operation of the funfair there. (2) “Council” means a council constituted under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. 15 Applications for licences 5 Application for licence: essential procedure, content etc (1) This section has effect for determining whether an application for a licence is a valid application. (2) To be valid, an application must— 20 (a) be made by or on behalf of the person who (whether or not its owner) is to be in charge of the operation of the travelling funfair, (b) be in writing and be signed by or on behalf of that person, (c) state the full name and address of that person, (d) be accompanied by the application fee of £50, 25 (e) describe the site where the funfair is proposed to be operated and do so sufficiently to enable the council to identify it for the purposes of their decision whether to grant the licence (and see subsection (3)), (f) list and describe the structures and other equipment to be set up there, (g) specify the dates when the funfair is proposed to be operated there (the earliest 30 and latest of which must not be more than six weeks apart), (h) be accompanied by copies (or originals) of all certificates and other documents— (i) issued under the enactments about public safety and public health as they apply to the funfair, and (ii) evidencing the compliance of the funfair and its structures and other 35 equipment with those enactments, (i) be received by the council not later than 28 days before the date specified in the application as the proposed first day of operation of the funfair (but see subsection (5)). (3) An applicant may, for the purposes of paragraph (e) of subsection (2), describe two 40 sites, alternative to each other, and state the applicant’s order of preference. (4) An application made by virtue of subsection (3) is a valid application only if valid in relation to both sites. 3 Travelling Funfairs (Licensing) (Scotland) Bill (5) Despite subsection (2)(i), the council must, for the purposes of that provision, treat an application received— (a) later than the 28-day time limit, but (b) not later than 14 days before the date referred to in subsection (2)(i), 5 as valid unless, in the circumstances, it thinks it impracticable in the time available to consider and decide whether to grant the licence applied for. (6) The Scottish Minsters may by regulations substitute for the amount of the application fee such other amount as they think appropriate but only in order to take account...