The Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Supplemental

Exemptions and savings

84.  Nothing in this Order shall—

(a) affect the operation of the [1991 NI 11] Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

(b) apply to the sale or consumption of intoxicating liquor to or in any canteen in which the sale of intoxicating liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or the Police Authority for Northern Ireland or to or in any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces;

(c) prejudice or affect the sale by any manufacturing or wholesale chemist of spirits of wine wholesale for medicinal purposes to registered medical practitioners, duly registered pharmaceutical chemists or persons requiring the spirits for use for scientific purposes in any laboratory;

(d) apply to the sale or supply of medicated spirits or spirits or spirituous liquor made up in medicine by a doctor;

(e) apply to intoxicating liquor in confectionery which—

(i) does not contain intoxicating liquor in a proportion greater than 200 millilitres of liquor (containing a quantity of ethyl alcohol amounting to 57 per cent. of the volume of the liquor inclusive of the alcohol contained in it as at 20°C) per kilogram of the confectionery; and

(ii) either consists of separate pieces weighing not more than 42 and a half grams or is designed to be broken into such pieces for the purposes of consumption;

(f) apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor to or by a public body exercising functions in connection with the training of persons who are or propose to become engaged or employed in the hotel or catering industry, if it is supplied with meals prepared or served by such persons by way of demonstration or consumed as ancillary to such a meal.

Modifications of Schedules, amendments, transitional provisions, savings and repeals

85.—(1) The provisions of Schedule 1, paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 and Part I of Schedule 8 may be modified by county court rules and the provisions of Schedules 4 to 7, Part II of Schedule 8 and Schedules 9 and 10 may be modified by magistrates' courts rules, and any rules made under this paragraph may make consequential modifications of this Order.

(2) The statutory provisions set out in Schedule 11 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule.

(3) The transitional provisions and savings contained in Schedule 12 shall have effect for the purposes of this Order.

(4) The statutory provisions set out in Schedule 13 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.