68Extended hours applications
(1)The appropriate Licensing Board may—
(a)on the application of the holder of the premises licence in respect of any licensed premises, and
(b)if the Board consider it appropriate to do so in connection with—
(i)a special event or occasion to be catered for on the premises, or
(ii)a special event of local or national significance,
extend the licensed hours in respect of the premises by such period as is specified in the application or such other period as the Board consider appropriate.
(2)An extension of licensed hours under subsection (1) has effect for such period as is specified in the application or such other period as the Board consider appropriate; but in either case the period must not exceed one month.
(3)An application under subsection (1) is referred to in this Act as an “extended hours application”.
(4)A period of licensed hours which is extended under this section may not be further extended under this section.
(5)Except where the context requires otherwise, references in this Act to “licensed hours” are, in relation to any period of licensed hours extended under this section, to be taken as references to such hours as so extended.
(6)References in this section to “licensed premises” do not include premises in respect of which an occasional licence has effect.