29Local authority may grant occasional licenses exempting from provisions relating to closing during certain hours.
If any licensed victualler or keeper of a refreshment house in which intoxicating liquors are sold applies to the local authority of a licensing district for a license exempting him from the provisions of this Act relating to closing of premises on any special occasion or occasions, it shall be lawful for such local authority, if in his discretion he thinks fit so to do, to grant to the applicant an occasional license exempting him from the provisions of this Act relating to closing of premises during certain hours, and on the special occasion or occasions to be specified in the license; and no licensed victualler or keeper of a refreshment house to whom an occasional license has been granted under this section shall be subject to any penalty for the contravention of the provisions of this Act relating to the closing of premises during the time to which his occasional license extends, but he shall not be exempted by such occasional license from any penalty to which he may be subject by any other provision of this or any other Act of Parliament.