Overview
If you have a personal licence you can submit a greater number of temporary event notices (up to 50 in each calendar year, subject to restrictions) or be appointed a designated premises supervisor (DPS) in licensed premises. You can also authorise someone else to sell alcohol.
Alcohol can only be sold under the authority of a premises licence if a DPS is appointed. Only personal licence holders can be appointed as a DPS for a premises licence. The DPS will normally be the person who has day-to-day responsibility for running the premises.
There may be several personal licence holders working at a premises, but there can only be one DPS. The premises licence holder must appoint the DPS, and the prospective DPS must consent to be appointed as it is a position of legal responsibility.
You can use your personal licence to sell alcohol or authorise the sale of alcohol anywhere with a premises licence in England and Wales.
Personal licences do not expire.