Licensing Act 1964

Exceptions

63 Exceptions from prohibition of sale, etc. of intoxicating liquor outside permitted hours

(1) Where any intoxicating liquor is supplied in any premises during the permitted hours, section 59 of this Act does not prohibit or restrict—

(a) during the first ten minutes after the end of any period forming part of those hours, the consumption of the liquor on the premises, nor, unless the liquor was supplied or is taken away in an open vessel, the taking of the liquor from the premises ;

(b) during the first half hour after the end of such a period, the consumption of the liquor on the premises by persons taking meals there, if the liquor was supplied for consumption as an ancillary to their meals.

(2) Section 59 of this Act does not prohibit or restrict—

(a) the sale or supply to, or consumption by, any person of intoxicating liquor in any premises where he is residing;

(b) the ordering of intoxicating liquor to be consumed off the premises, or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered;

(c) the sale of intoxicating liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade, or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or

(d) the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor to any canteen or mess.

(3) Section 59 of this Act does not prohibit or restrict as regards licensed premises—

(a) the taking of intoxicating liquor from the premises by a person residing there ; or

(b) the supply of intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by him at his own expense, or the consumption of intoxicating liquor by persons so supplied ; or

(c) the supply of intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises to persons employed there for the purposes of the business carried on by the holder of the licence, or the consumption of liquor so supplied, if the liquor is supplied at the expense of their employer or of the person carrying on or in charge of the business on the premises.

(4) In subsection (2) of this section, as it applies to licensed premises, and in subsection (3) of this section, references to a person residing in the premises shall be construed as including a person not residing there but carrying on or in charge of the business on the premises.