Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 78
LICENCES AND LICENSING
The Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
20th January 2005
Laid before Parliament
20th January 2005
Coming into force
7th February 2005
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred upon her by sections 183(1) of the Licensing Act 2003(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 7th February 2005.
Amendment of Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005
2. In regulation 6 (notice of hearing) of the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005(2) there shall be added after paragraph (3) the following paragraph—
“(4) In any other case, the authority shall give the notice of hearing no later than ten working days before the day of the first day on which the hearing is to be held.”
Andrew McIntosh
Minister of State
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
20th January 2005
Explanatory Note
(This note does not form part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/44) (the principal Regulation) to correct an omission from the principal Regulations concerning the provision of a timescale within which a licensing authority must give notice of a hearing to specified persons.
These Regulations add a new regulation 6(4) to the principal Regulations requiring a licensing authority to give the notice of a hearing in cases other than those specified in regulations 6(2) and 6(3) of the principal Regulations within ten working days before the day, or the first day, of the hearing (regulation 2).