The Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

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General permitted hoursN.I.

42.—(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this Part, the permitted hours for premises of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1), except premises of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(b) [F1or (m)] [F2(subject to paragraph (6))] or a place of public entertainment, are the hours—

(a)on week-days, other than F3... Christmas Day, from half past 11 in the morning to 11 in the evening; and

[F4(aa)on Sundays, other than Christmas Day, from half past 12 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening; and]

F5(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)[F6on Christmas Day,] from half past 12 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening.

[F7(1A) Neither paragraph (1)(aa) nor, in a year when Christmas Day is on a Sunday, paragraph (1)(c) applies in the case of premises of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(a) with respect to which a direction under Article 7(10) or 15(5)(a) is in force.]

(2) The permitted hours for premises of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(b) [F8or (m)] [F9(subject to paragraph (6))] are the hours—

(a)on week-days, other than Christmas Day, from 8 in the morning to 11 in the evening; and

(b)on Sunday, not being Christmas Day F10..., from 10 in the morning to 10 in the evening.

(3) The permitted hours for a place of public entertainment are that part of the hours mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) F11... and, in the case of [F12a cinema,] a theatre [F13or (subject to paragraph (4)) premises on a licensed track], [F14paragraph (1)(aa) and (c)] which comprises—

(a)the period of an entertainment; and

(b)periods, not exceeding 30 minutes in each case, which immediately precede the commencement and immediately succeed the termination of an entertainment.

[F15(4) The permitted hours for premises on a licensed track do not include any time on Christmas Day.

(5) In this Article, “licensed track” has the meaning given in the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985.]

[F16(6) In the case of premises of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(m) to which an order under Article 52E applies, the permitted hours for a part of the premises specified in the order on a day on which an authorisation under Article 52F has effect are the hours on that day from 4 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening.]

F1Words in art. 42(1) inserted (6.4.2022) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 10(5), 47(2); S.R. 2022/63, art. 2, Sch.

F2Words in art. 42(1) inserted (1.6.2022) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 11(3), 47(2); S.R. 2022/133, art. 2, Sch.

F3Words in art. 42(1)(a) repealed (1.10.2021) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 1(2)(a), 47(2), Sch. 2; S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F4Art. 42(1)(aa) inserted (1.10.2021) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 2(2)(a), 47(2); S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F5Art. 42(1)(b) and word repealed (1.10.2021) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 1(2)(b), 47(2), Sch. 2; S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F6Words in art. 42(1)(c) substituted (1.10.2021) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 2(2)(b), 47(2); S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F7Art. 42(1A) inserted (1.10.2021) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 2(3), 47(2); S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F8Words in art. 42(2) inserted (6.4.2022) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 10(5), 47(2); S.R. 2022/63, art. 2, Sch.

F9Words in art. 42(2) inserted (1.6.2022) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 11(3), 47(2); S.R. 2022/133, art. 2, Sch.

F10Words in art. 42(2)(b) repealed (1.10.2021) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 1(3), 47(2), Sch. 2; S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F11Words in art. 42(3) omitted (1.10.2021) by virtue of Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 1(4), 47(2); S.R. 2021/247, art. 2, Sch.

F12Words in art. 42(3) inserted (6.4.2022) by Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7), ss. 9(2), 47(2); S.R. 2022/63, art. 2, Sch.