The Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

General permitted hours

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) or a place of public entertainment, are the hours—

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

(b)on Good Friday from 5 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening; and

(c)except 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, on Sunday or Christmas Day from half past 12 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening.

(2) The permitted hours for premises of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(b) 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 or Easter Day, 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) and (b) and, in the case of a theatre, paragraph (1)(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.