Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1962

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Time for consumption of intoxicating liquor supplied during permitted hours.

7.—(1) (a) Nothing in the Licensing Acts shall operate to prohibit a person from being on, or consuming, or permitting the consumption of, intoxicating liquor on, premises in respect of which an on-licence within the meaning of the Act of 1927 is in force during the period of ten minutes commencing at the beginning of a period during which the sale of intoxicating liquor on licensed premises is prohibited.

(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of this subsection a period during which the sale of intoxicating liquor in licensed premises is permitted by or under any provision of the Licensing Acts (other than section 2 of the Act of 1927) shall be deemed to be a period during which such sale is prohibited on such premises.

(2) (a) Nothing in the Registration of Clubs Acts, or contained, by virtue only of subsection (1) of section 56 of the Act of 1927, in the rules of a club registered under those Acts shall operate to prohibit the consumption of excisable liquor on the club premises by any person during the period of ten minutes commencing at the beginning of a period during which the supplying of excisable liquor on such premises is prohibited.

(b) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of this subsection a period during which the supplying of excisable liquor on club premises is permitted by or under any provision of the Registration of Clubs Acts (other than subsection (1) of section 56 of the Act of 1927) shall be deemed to be a period during which such supplying on such premises is prohibited.