Alcohol licensing

A personal licence allows the holder to supervise or authorise the sale of alcohol from a licensed premises. Applicants must be 18 or older and have a licensing qualification from an accredited trainer.

Find out about alcohol licence qualifications - Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)

Personal licences are valid for 10 years unless they are revoked earlier. Refresher training must be taken every five years.

You'll need a personal licence if you want to be a designated premises manager. You can only be the designated premises manager for one licensed premises.

How to apply for or renew a licence

Complete the personal licence application form and send it to the address on the form, along with the required documents.

Application fee

The personal licence application fee is £50. You can send a cheque with your application or we can call you to take payment by debit or credit card when we have checked your application.

Check all our licensing fees.

After you apply

We consider all applications in line with the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005. A copy of the application is sent to Police Scotland to check for relevant convictions or foreign convictions and if there are any the application will be considered by the licensing board.

If an application is granted we'll send the licence shortly after.

Mandatory refresher training

All personal licence holders must have refresher training every five years.

Find out more about refresher training

Within five years of the original licence grant, licence holders must complete accredited personal licence refresher training.

Within five years and three months of the original licence grant, evidence of taking the refresher training must be sent to the licensing office with a training completion form and training certificate.

A personal licence holder who does not complete the training or send us proof will have their personal licence revoked, without discretion, hearing or appeal.

Training providers

These providers do refresher training in Dumfries and Galloway. You can use any accredited provider.