The Licensing (Notice Relating to Local Producer’s Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made: 7th March 2022

Coming into operation: 7th April 2022

The Department for Communities[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 52B(6), 52C(6) and 52D(10) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003].

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Licensing (Notice Relating to Local Producer’s Licence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 7th April 2022.

Form and dimensions of Notice

2

A notice under Article 52B(6) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 must –

• (a) contain the information specified in Schedule 1; and

• (b) be contained in a document the dimensions of which are no less than 297 mm in length and 210 mm in width.

3

A notice under Article 52C(6) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 must –

• (a) contain the information specified in Schedule 2; and

• (b) be contained in a document the dimensions of which are no less than 297 mm in length and 210 mm in width.

4

A notice under Article 52D(10) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 must –

• (a) contain the information specified in Schedule 3; and

• (b) be contained in a document the dimensions of which are no less than 297 mm in length and 210 mm in width.

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 3

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 7th March 2022.

Anthony Carleton — A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations prescribe the notice relating to the sale and consumption of intoxicating liquor that producers of intoxicating liquor must display at their own premises and when selling from other licensed and unlicensed premises, and the information the notices must contain.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department for Social Development see section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.))

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996 No. 3158 Articles 52B to 52D were inserted by section 10(3) of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 7 (N.I.))

[^f00003]: See Article 8(b) of and Part II of Schedule 6 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481)