Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2016 No. 294

Licensing

The Licensing (Designation of Outdoor Stadia) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made

19th July 2016

Coming into operation

1st September 2016

The Department for Communities(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 2AA(c) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) 1996(2) and now vested in it(3).

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Licensing (Designation of Outdoor Stadia) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2016.

Designation of outdoor stadium

2. The main stadium of the Irish Rugby Football Union in Ulster at 85 Ravenhill Park, Belfast is designated as an outdoor stadium of importance to the whole of Northern Ireland for the purposes of Article 2AA(c) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 19th July 2016.

(L.S.)

Andrew Hamilton

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations designate the main stadium of the Irish Rugby Football Union in Ulster at 85 Ravenhill Park, Belfast as an outdoor stadium of importance to the whole of Northern Ireland. This designation allows the Ulster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union to apply to the courts for a liquor licence at the stadium.

(1)

2016 c.5 (N.I.)

(2)

S.I. 1996/3158; Article 2AA was inserted by Section 2 of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Act 2016 (c. 24 (N.I.)

(3)

See Article 8(b) and Part II of Schedule 6 to the Department (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) (S.R. 1999 No. 481)