SCHEDULES

C1C2 SCHEDULE 1 Licensing—Further Provisions as to the General System

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Sch. 1: power to apply conferred (18.11.1996) by 1996 c. 58, ss. 33(3), 48(6)

F7Variation, suspension and revocation of licences

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F7

Sch. 1 para. 10 cross-heading substituted (1.11.2016) by Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 10), ss. 78(3)(a), 88(2); S.S.I. 2016/307, art. 2, sch. (with art. 5)

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1

A licensing authority may, at any time, whether or not upon an application made to them by the holder of the licence, vary the terms of a licence on any grounds they think fit.

2

A licensing authority, before proceeding to vary the terms of a licence under sub-paragraph (1) above—

a

shall, not later than 7 days before the day on which the proposed variation is to be considered, notify the holder of the licence, the chief constable and, where the licence relates to an activity wholly or mainly carried on in premises, the F4Scottish Fire and Rescue Service of the proposed variation; and

b

shall give each of the persons F1required to be notified under sub-sub-paragraph (a) above an opportunity to be heard by the authority on that day.

F22A

Where the premises mentioned in sub-paragraph (2)(a) above are premises to which Part 3 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5) applies, that sub-paragraph applies as if the reference to the F5Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were a reference to the enforcing authority

3

A licensing authority shall have complied with sub-paragraph (2)(b) above if they have invited each of the persons whom they must notify under that sub-paragraph to attend and to be heard by the authority when the variation of the licence is to be considered.

4

A licensing authority shall, within 7 days of their decision under sub-paragraph (1) above, send written notice of their decision to the holder of the licence and the chief constable and, where the licence relates to an activity wholly or mainly carried on

F3a

in premises to which Part 3 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5) applies, the enforcing authority;

b

in any other premises , to the F6Scottish Fire and Rescue Service .

5

A variation in the terms of a licence shall come into force—

a

when the time within which an appeal under paragraph 18 below may be made has elapsed; or

b

where such an appeal has been lodged, when the appeal has been abandoned or determined in favour of the variation.

F86

Sub-paragraph (5) does not apply to a deemed variation of the terms of a licence under section 3(4).