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The聽Bill aims to provide a framework and legal basis for clarifying the responsibility of publicly-accessible locations to protect members of the public from terrorism while they are visiting the premises.

The includes a significant shift in liability for terrorism from the State to businesses that manage event venues. The department has improved sufficiently the assessment of impacts on small & micro businesses, since the IA on the draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. The RPC is able to validate a revised EANDCB figure, reflecting revisions to the Bill and improved evidence on impacts. While a significant amount of detail is provided, the IA does not include evidence that the proposals would reduce terrorism for small venues or that a new regulator with national inspectors would be more efficient than local authority compliance activity.

The RPC notes that, while the IA received a green rating for the EANDCB figure and the assessment of impact on small and micro businesses, it was also assessed as 鈥渨eak鈥� for its rationale and options assessment, its assessment of wider impacts and for its overall cost-benefit analysis. The monitoring and evaluation plan was assessed as 鈥済ood鈥�.