Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1960

PART II.

Prohibited Hours.

Prohibited hours generally.

4.—Section 2 (which relates to prohibited hours) of the Act of 1927 is hereby amended by the substitution for subsections (1) and (2) (both inserted by the Act of 1943) of the following subsections, and the Act of 1927 and in particular subsections (4) and (5) of the said section 2 shall be construed and have effect accordingly:

“(1) Save as is otherwise provided by this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell or expose for sale any intoxicating liquor or to open or keep open any premises for the sale of intoxicating liquor or to permit any intoxicating liquor to be consumed on licensed premises—

(a) on any week-day, before the hour of half-past ten o'clock in the morning or—

(i) during the months of June, July, August and September, after the hour of half-past eleven o'clock in the evening, or

(ii) during any other month, after the hour of eleven o'clock in the evening,

or, if the premises are situate in a county borough, (subject to the exceptions hereinafter mentioned) between the hours of half-past two o'clock and half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, or

(b) on Saint Patrick's Day or any Sunday, before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock in the afternoon or between the hours of two o'clock and five o'clock in the afternoon or—

(i) during the months of June, July, August and September, after the hour of nine o'clock in the evening, or

(ii) during any other month, after the hour of eight o'clock in the evening,

or

(c) at any time on Christmas Day or Good Friday.

(2) The exceptions referred to in paragraph (a) of the foregoing subsection are:

(a) that between the hours of half-past two o'clock and half-past three o'clock in the afternoon on any week-day the holder of an on-licence attached to premises situate in a county borough may receive on the premises orders (accompanied or not accompanied by payment) by post, telegraph or telephone but not otherwise for intoxicating liquor to be consumed off the premises and to be delivered by the holder at the residence of the person so ordering the same or at a railway station but not otherwise and may so deliver the intoxicating liquor so ordered, but the person so ordering the intoxicating liquor shall not for the purposes of any other section of this Act be a person to whom intoxicating liquor may be lawfully sold or supplied on the premises between the said hours on the said days, and

(b) that between the hours of half-past two o'clock and half-past three o'clock in the afternoon on any week-day the holder of an off-licence attached to premises situate in a county borough may receive verbally or otherwise on such premises orders (accompanied or not accompanied by payment) for intoxicating liquor to be consumed off the premises and to be delivered by the holder at the residence of the person ordering the same or at a railway station but not otherwise and may so deliver the intoxicating liquor so ordered and may open and keep open the said premises for the purpose of receiving such orders and may expose on the premises intoxicating liquor for sale on such orders.”