32.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), where licensed premises (in this Article referred to as “the original premises”) are wholly or substantially destroyed or demolished and are, or are to be, reconstructed (with or without any extension), the licence for the original premises shall, if duly renewed and not suspended, continue in force to the extent necessary—
(a)to enable an order to be made under Article 29(1) for the temporary continuance of the business in other (including temporary) premises; and
(b)to enable the licence to be surrendered as a subsisting licence in consideration of the grant of a new licence;
but shall not be authority for the sale of intoxicating liquor in the reconstructed premises.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of an hotel where the destruction, demolition or reconstruction does not affect any public or common part of the premises in which intoxicating liquor is sold.
(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the demolition and reconstruction of part of any premises solely in the course of an alteration which is consented to or required as mentioned in Article 31(1) or is ordered to be made as mentioned in Article 31(3).