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Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021

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Alignment of closing time for liquor and entertainmentN.I.

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4.  After Article 44B of the Licensing Order (inserted by section 3(1)) insert—

Alignment of closing time for liquor and entertainment

44C.(1) This Article applies in relation to any occasion on which an entertainments licence in force in respect of premises to which an order under Article 44 applies would (but for this Article) permit entertainment that was being provided in the premises to continue to be provided in the premises after the end of the hours mentioned in Article 44(2).

(2) The hours mentioned in Article 44(2) do not apply in relation to the premises on that occasion and the hours specified in Article 42 apply instead in relation to the premises on that occasion.

(3) But the entertainments licence continues in force on that occasion and accordingly permits entertainment to be provided in the premises after the end of the hours specified in Article 42.

(4) If an order under Article 44A(3) or (4) applies in relation to the premises, the references in this Article to the hours mentioned in Article 44(2) are to be read as including a reference to the additional hour authorised by that order.

(5) The references in this Article to the hours specified in Article 42 are references to those hours as extended by Article 46.

(6) In this Article—

“entertainment” has the same meaning as in Article 44, and

“entertainments licence” means a licence under paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985..

Commencement Information

I1S. 4 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 47(2)

I2S. 4 in operation at 1.10.2021 by S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

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