The Deregulation (Special Hours Certificates) Order 1996

Special Hours Certificates and Summer Time

2.—(1) Section 76 of the Licensing Act 1964 (permitted hours where special hours certificate in force) shall be amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (2) there shall be inserted—

“(2A) In relation to the morning on which summer time begins, subsection (2) of this section shall have effect—

(a) with the substitution of references to three o'clock in the morning for references to two o'clock in the morning; and

(b) where the permitted hours in any premises or part of premises extend to a time between one o'clock and two o'clock in the morning by virtue of a limitation in the special hours certificate imposed pursuant to section 78A or 81A of this Act, as if the permitted hours extended to one hour after that specified in the certificate.”.

(3) In subsection (3) (which modifies subsection (2) in relation to premises in London outside the City)—

(a) after “effect” there shall be inserted—

“(a) except in relation to the morning on which summer time begins,”and

(b) at the end there shall be inserted

“, and

(b) in relation to that morning, with the substitution of references to four o'clock in the morning for the references to two o'clock in the morning.”.

(4) At the end there shall be inserted—

“(8) In this section, references to summer time are to the period of summer time for the purposes of the [1972 c. 6] Summer Time Act 1972.”