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At the moment, the matter is open to interpretation. Some local authorities may enforce licensing and others may not, on the basis of that legal evidence.
It is inevitable that statements will contain a great deal that is irrelevant, that may not be true or that may be prejudicial to one party or the other.
In the wider UK, a bargain is struck, whereby we have a unified fiscal system with the same tax and exchange rates. That may or may not be appropriate for every area, but everyone lives with it.
It is not a matter of updating facilities that may be fairly recent. If a facility is being refurbished, it is because the asset has come to the end of its life cycle.
The fear that education authorities and other agencies may invoke what can be interpreted as get-out clauses in section 19 of the bill or that they may use another get-out clause on the ground of reasonable cost deserves further attention.