The Regulatory Reform (Special Occasions Licensing) Order 2002

Amendment of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982

4.  Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982(1) (licensing of public entertainments outside Greater London) is amended by inserting, after paragraph 13, the following—

(1)   Sub-paragraph (2) below applies where—

(a) the Special Occasions licensing hours are (subject to any Special Occasions restriction order) to be added to the permitted hours in any premises, and

(b) the premises form all or part of a place in respect of which a licence under paragraph 1 above is for the time being in force.

(2) No person shall be guilty of an offence under paragraph 12(2) above by reason only of the premises being kept open on New Year’s Eve for any of the purposes authorised by the licence after the latest hour so authorised.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above, “New Year’s Eve”—

(a) does not include any time specified in a Special Occasions restriction order as not to be added to the permitted hours, but

(b) otherwise, includes any period immediately following New Year’s Eve during which the Special Occasions licensing hours continue.

(4) Where, by virtue of a Special Occasions restriction order, the permitted hours together with any of the Special Occasions licensing hours to be added to them end at different times in different parts of the premises, each part shall be treated as separate premises for the purposes of this paragraph.

(5) In this paragraph expressions used in the Regulatory Reform (Special Occasions Licensing) Order 2001 shall have the same meaning as in that Order.”

(1)

1982 c. 30; paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 1 is amended by section 1(3) of the Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Act 1990 (c. 20). Other amendments have been made to Schedule 1 which are not relevant for the purposes of this Order.