The Licensing (Extended Hours Orders) (Amendment) Rules 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1188

LICENSING (LIQUOR)

The Licensing (Extended Hours Orders) (Amendment) Rules 1988

Made

11th July 1988

Coming into force

1st August 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 91 and 198(2) of the Licensing Act 1964(1), I hereby make the following Rules:

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Licensing (Extended Hours Orders) (Amendment) Rules 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.

2.  The Licensing (Extended Hours Orders) Rules 1962(2) shall be amended by substituting for Rule 1 the following Rule:

“1.   Subject to the provisions of these Rules, the procedure on the consideration by licensing justices of an application—

(a) for the making or variation of an extended hours order, or

(b) for the revocation of an extended hours order

shall be as nearly as may be the same as the procedure followed by the justices on the consideration of, in the case of an application such as is mentioned in paragraph (a) above, an application for the grant of a justices' licence and, in the case of an application such as is mentioned in paragraph (b) above, opposition to the renewal of a justices' licence.”.

3.  Rule 3(2) of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Licensing (Extended Hours Orders) Rules 1962 are hereby revoked.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

11th July 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Rules amend the Licensing (Extended Hours Order) Rules 1962 to take account of the abolition of the requirement to renew an extended hours order whenever the justices' licence for the premises is renewed or transferred effected by section 4 of the Licensing Act 1988 (c. 17) which comes into force on 1st August 1988 (S.I. 1988/1187).

(1)

1964 c. 26.

(2)

S.I. 1962/75.