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Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005

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67Power for Licensing Board to grant general extensions of licensed hours

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(1)A Licensing Board may, if they consider it appropriate to do so in connection with a special event of local or national significance, make a determination extending licensed hours by such period as the Board may specify in the determination.

(2)A determination under subsection (1) may apply to—

(a)the whole of the Licensing Board’s area or only to specified parts of the area,

(b)licensed hours generally or only to specified descriptions of licensed hours, and

(c)all licensed premises in the Board’s area or only to specified descriptions of such premises.

(3)A determination under subsection (1) has effect for such period as the Board may specify in it.

(4)Where a Licensing Board makes a determination under subsection (1), the Board must—

(a)give notice of the determination to—

(i)the appropriate chief constable, and

(ii)the holders of premises licences and occasional licences in respect of premises to which the determination applies, and

(b)publicise it in such manner as the Board sees fit.

(5)Nothing in this section is to be taken as requiring any licensed premises to be open for the sale of alcohol during the period of any extension of licensed hours specified in a determination under subsection (1).

(6)Except where the context requires otherwise, references in this Act to “licensed hours” are, in relation to any relevant premises to which a determination under subsection (1) applies, to be taken as references to such hours as extended by the determination.

(7)In this section, “specified” means specified in a determination under subsection (1).

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