140.This section provides a new power for Licensing Boards to grant general extensions to licensed hours in connection with special events of local or national significance.
141.Subsection (2) provides that this can apply to the whole of the Board’s area or only to specified parts; licensed hours generally or only to specified descriptions of those hours; and all relevant premises in the Board’s area or only to specified descriptions of such premises.
142.Subsection (4) requires Boards to give notice of any such determinations made under this section to those persons specified.