Licensing Act 1988

1. Introductory Text

2. Permitted hours

   1. 1. Modification of permitted hours.

   2. 2. Extension of period for consumption of intoxicating liquor outside permitted hours.

   3. 3. Restriction orders.

   4. 4. Abolition of renewals of extended hours orders.

   5. 5. Discretion with respect to grant, and limitation, of special hours certificates.

   6. 6. Exemption orders and special hours certificates: fees

   7. 7. Transfer of powers with respect to general orders of exemption in London.

   8. 8. Power to vary permitted hours in on-licensed vineyard premises.

3. Licences: miscellaneous provisions

   1. 9. Provisional grant of new licence or removal.

   2. 10. Disqualified premises— garages.

   3. 11. Extension of duration of justices’ licences and canteen licences.

   4. 12. Revocation of justices’ licences and canteen licences.

   5. 13. Power of clerk to licensing justices to grant unopposed renewals of justices’ licences and canteen licences.

4. Licensing justices: constitution and procedure and costs

   1. 14. Modifications of constitution and procedure of licensing justices

   2. 15. Power of licensing justices to award costs.

5. Protection of persons under eighteen

   1. 16. Sale of intoxicating liquor on licensed premises to persons under 18.

   2. 17. Sales to or by persons under 18 of intoxicating liquor on wholesale premises.

   3. 18. Prohibition of unsupervised off-sales by persons under 18.

6. Supplementary

   1. 19. Amendments and repeals.

   2. 20. Short title, interpretation, commencement and extent.

7. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Amendments of the Principal Act Consequential on Section 1

      1. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 2. In section 60(5) (definition of “general licensing hours”) for the...

      3. 3. In section 61 (orders varying permitted hours)—

      4. 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 5. In section 68(1)(a) (extension of permitted hours in restaurants etc....

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Restriction Orders: Procedure

      1. Schedule Inserted after Schedule 8 to the Principal Act

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Minor Amendments of the Principal Act

      1. 1. In section 7 (renewal of justices’ licences)—

      2. 2. In section 9(5) (saving for disqualification under other enactments of...

      3. 3. In section 21 (appeals)— (a) in subsection (1) (decisions of...

      4. 4. In section 22 (procedural provisions as to appeals), the following...

      5. 5. In section 23 (powers of Crown Court on appeals), the...

      6. 6. In section 43(3) (grounds for refusing an application for the...

      7. 7. In section 65 (six-day and early-closing licences)—

      8. 8. In section 76 (special hours certificates: permitted hours)—

      9. 9. In section 81B (special hours certificates: appeals)—

      10. 10. In section 89(1) (duty of licensee to post notice where...

      11. 11. In section 91 (procedure of licensing justices), for the words...

      12. 12. In section 95 (permitted hours in restaurants, etc.), subsection (1)...

      13. 13. The following section shall be inserted after section 150— Variation...

      14. 14. In section 151 (renewal of canteen licences)—

      15. 15. In section 154(1) (appeals in connection with canteen licences)—

      16. 16. In section 168(3)(a) (due diligence defence), for the word “used”...

      17. 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      18. 18. In section 185 (duty of holder to produce certain licences...

      19. 19. The following section shall be inserted after section 196— Extension...

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      Repeals