Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988

Exemptions for hotels and restaurants.

28.—The Act of 1927 is hereby amended by the substitution for section 13 (inserted by section 5 of the Act of 1960 and amended by section 4 of the Act of 1962) of the following section:

“13. Nothing in this Act shall operate to prohibit the holder of an on-licence in respect of premises which are for the time being a hotel or restaurant from supplying intoxicating liquor to any person on the premises or from permitting intoxicating liquor to be consumed on the premises—

(a) during a period of summer time, between the hours of half-past eleven o'clock in the evening on any weekday and half-past twelve o'clock in the morning on the following day, or

(b) during a period which is not a period of summer time, between the hours of eleven o'clock in the evening on any weekday and half-past twelve o'clock in the morning on the following day, or

(c) unless his licence is a six-day licence, on any Sunday, between the hours of two o'clock and three o'clock in the afternoon, or

(d) on Christmas Day, between the hours of one o'clock and three o'clock in the afternoon or the hours of seven o'clock and ten o'clock in the evening,

if, in each case, the intoxicating liquor is—

(i) ordered by that person at the same time as a substantial meal is ordered by him,

(ii) consumed at the same time as and with the meal,

(iii) supplied and consumed in the portion of the premises usually set apart for the supply of meals, and

(iv) paid for at the same time as the meal is paid for.”.