PART IVCONDUCT OF LICENSED PREMISES, ETC.

General provisions regulating sale, etc., possession and delivery of intoxicating liquor

International airports

65.—(1) Where any licensed premises are within the examination station approved under section 22 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(1) for an airport the Department may, by order, specify the airport as an international airport.

(2) The Department shall not specify an airport as an international airport unless—

(a)it appears to it that there is a substantial amount of international passenger traffic at the airport; and

(b)it is satisfied that arrangements have been made for affording reasonable facilities on licensed premises within the examination station referred to in paragraph (1) at the airport for obtaining hot and cold beverages other than intoxicating liquor at all times when such liquor is obtainable for consumption in the premises.

(3) Where it appears to the Department that at any airport specified as an international airport by order under paragraph (1) the arrangements referred to in paragraph (2)(b) are not being maintained, it shall revoke that order in relation to the airport, but without prejudice to its power of making a further order with respect to it.