Cinema - Apply for a licence

How to apply

Apply for a licence

If you want to show films to the public, you will need a cinema licence. This includes any exhibition of moving pictures and includes recorded films and screening of performances.

A cinema licence is not needed for:

  • Showing films in a private house, to which the public are not admitted, provided the exhibition is not for private gain
  • Non commercial film exhibitions to which the public are not admitted or are admitted without payment or exhibitions by exempted societies or organisations
  • Occasional and exceptional exhibitions - where premises are used on no more than six days in the calendar year
  • Mobile cinemas (other than for where the owner of the mobile unit resides)
  • Video games
  • Screening of television programmes at the time they are received

If your application is refused you can request for us to give you a statement of reasons. You have a right of appeal to the Sheriff Court.

Forms and guidance

You will need:

  • a credit or debit card
  • To have read the standard conditions for a cinema
  • To have read and understood the fees related to this licence

 

View standard conditions for a cinema

View our current fees

Contact us

Phone: 01349 886609

Online enquiry form