Part 1Alcohol-related violence and disorder

Chapter 2Alcohol Disorder Zones

I120Supplemental provisions for Chapter 2

1

In this Chapter—

  • “alcohol disorder zone” means a locality designated as such a zone under section 16;

  • “local authority” means—

    1. a

      a district council;

    2. b

      a county council for an area for which there are no district councils;

    3. c

      a London borough council;

    4. d

      the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;

    5. e

      the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

    6. f

      a county council or a county borough council in Wales;

  • “local chief officer of police”, in relation to the designation of a locality as an alcohol disorder zone, means the chief of police of the police force for the police area in which that locality is situated;

  • “locality” includes a part of a locality.

2

Expressions used in this Chapter and in the Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17) or in a Part of that Act have the same meanings in this Chapter as in that Act or Part.

3

References in this Chapter to premises' being in a locality (however described) include references to their being partly in that locality.

4

The powers of the Secretary of State to make regulations under this Chapter shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

5

Those powers all include power—

a

to make different provision for different cases;

b

to make provision subject to such exemptions and exceptions as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and

c

to make such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional provision as he thinks fit.

6

The Secretary of State must not make regulations containing (with or without other provision) any provision that he is authorised to make by this Chapter unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.

7

Subsection (5)(b) is subject to the restriction on exemptions contained in section 15(6).