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Diamond Jubilee Licensing Relaxation update - draft Order

As previously reported, it is the intention of the Government to allow a relaxation in the licensing hours for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend.

The draft Order has now been released and can be found by following this link - Licensing Act 2003 (Diamond Jubilee Licensing Hours) Order 2012.

As anticipated, the Order seeks to permit extended hours in respect of ‘on sales’ on Friday 1^st June and Saturday 2^nd June until 01:00 the following mornings each day.  Clearly the pressure for these extensions to apply into the early mornings following Sunday 3^rd and Monday 4^th June have not been heeded in the draft Order.

For premises to use the extensions, they will already need to be able to trade until 23:00 on the above dates.

Further, the extension will not apply for off sales of alcohol or for the provision of late night refreshment outside of alcohol sales hours. In effect, late night refreshment only venues will not have the benefit of the extension.

Premises requiring later hours than those to be permitted under the Order or to add forms of regulated entertainment not currently authorised by their premises licence should consider submitting Temporary Event Notices.

We will let you know once the draft Order is approved by Parliament.