Business License

Our firm gladly assists with your Application for a Business or Trade License with your local Municipality. We specialise in obtaining such License to carry on a Business in terms of the Business Act No 71 of 1991. If it is your business to attend to any of the following matters, you will require a Business / Trade License:

  • Sale or Supply of Meals

  • Hawking in Meals

  • Health Facility (Turkish baths, saunas or health baths)

  • Massage or Infra-Red Treatment

  • Escort Services

  • Mechanical, Electrical Apparatus or Devices (Games) 3 or more

  • Snooker or Billiard Tables

  • Cinema or Theatre

  • Adult Shop

  • Night Club or Discotheque

We can assist with your Application for a New License, Relocation of a Business or Alteration of Information on existing business / trade license.

These Applications are lodged with the Department of Environmental Health with the local Municipality and can take between 3 and 8 months for approval. We also deal with objections and replicating thereto, if applicable.

We will require the following information:

  1. Applicant particulars

  2. Addresses of business applicant and premises

  3. Details of manager or responsible person on the premises

  4. Zoning Certificate (if you have it available - we can also request on your behalf)

  5. Copy of Company documents or Identity documents of applicant

  6. Copy of approved building plan off the interior layout of the premises (if available)

We also need to submit an Application for Acceptability of the premises, that we will complete on your behalf.

We attend to these applications in the whole of the Western Cape.