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Licensing Hours Extensions Bill

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Home Office with the consent of Lord Watson of Wyre Forest, the Member in Charge of the Bill, have been ordered to be published as HL Bill 79—EN.

Licensing Hours Extensions Bill
[As brought from the Commons]
CONTENTS
1 Procedure for making licensing hours orders
2 Commencement, extent and short title
[As brought from the Commons]

A

bill

to

Amend the Licensing Act 2003 so that licensing hours orders can be made by negative resolution statutory instrument.

B e it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Procedure for making licensing hours orders


In section 197 of the Licensing Act 2003 (regulations and orders)—

(a)

in subsection (3), omit paragraph (d);

(b)

in subsection (4), omit “(d),”;

(c)

omit subsection (5).

2 Commencement, extent and short title

(1)

This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

(2)

This Act extends to England and Wales only.

(3)

This Act may be cited as the Licensing Hours Extensions Act 2024.

Licensing Hours Extensions Bill
[As brought from the Commons]

A

bill

to

Amend the Licensing Act 2003 so that licensing hours orders can be made by negative resolution statutory instrument.

Brought from the Commons on

Ordered to be Printed, .

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