b'the council of a district in England; the council of a county in England in which there are no district councils; the council of a county or county borough in Wales; the council of a London borough. The Act also specifies that the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple and Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temples, the Common Council of the City of London and the Council of the Isles of Scilly will be licensing authorities for their respective jurisdictions. The Licensing Act 2003 provides for fees to be payable to the licensing authority in respect of the discharge of their functions. Fee levels are set centrally by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, at a level to allow licensing authorities full cost recovery for the administration, inspection and enforcement of the regime. Centrally set fees are designed to remove previous inconsistencies in fee levels across authorities in England and Wales. The fee is supposed to fully recover the administration, inspection and enforcement costs of licensing authorities, which arise out of carrying out their licensing functions under the Act and to avoid the need for council tax payers to subsidise these costs. The Government has used the non-domestic rateable value (NDRV) as the means of allocating premises to fee bands. Particular types of premises which do not have non-domestic rateable values are allocated to Band A. Paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 enables district councils to charge such fees as they consider reasonable for the grant or renewal of a street trading licence or a street trading consent. Licences are also required under Part II of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 for the following establishments: sex shops; sex cinemas; and sexual entertainment venues. Schedule 3 to the1982 Act allows local authorities to set fees for licences of this kind. An applicant for the grant, renewal or transfer of a sex establishment licence is required to pay a reasonable fee determined by the Council. There is no fee for an application to vary the terms, conditions or restrictions on or subject to which a licence is held. The case of Hemming and others v Westminster City Council [2016] EUECJ C-316/15 was heard in the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on 16 November 2016 (the Hemming case). Proceedings in this matter began in May 2012 in the High Court after sex shop licensees started to ask searching questions under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about how the level of fees they were being charged was calculated. They had noted that since 2005, Westminster City Council charged sex shop owners in Soho and central London the same level of fees (29,102) per year for their licence despite an obligation on the Council to review such fees.169'