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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 28



28.(1) A business, other than that authorised by the licence and the ancillary
businesses mentioned in subsection (2), shall not be carried on in premises of
a kind mentioned in section 3(1)(a) or (b).

(2) The ancillary businesses are the businesses of

(a)selling tobacco, cigarettes, cigars and matches;

(b)selling table waters, fruit juices, angostura bitters and confectionery
containing intoxicating liquor;

(c)selling intoxicating liquor by wholesale;

(d)in the case of premises of a kind mentioned in section 3(1)(a)

(i)selling meals and refreshments;

(ii)providing entertainment.

(3) The ancillary businesses shall be carried on in the premises only during
the periods when the business authorised by the licence may lawfully be
carried on.

(4) Subject to subsection (6) premises of a kind mentioned in section 3(1)(a)
or (b) shall be so constructed that there is no internal means of passage
between them and other premises in which a business is carried on.

(5) Where

(a)any article is sold or made available for purchase in the course of a
business which is carried on in contravention of subsection (1) or (3); or

(b)intoxicating liquor is sold or made available for purchase in premises of a
kind mentioned in section 3(1)(a) or (b) which do not comply with subsection
(4),

(6) Subsection (4) shall not prohibit internal means of passage between

(a)premises of a kind mentioned in section 3(1)(a) and a restaurant for which
a licence is in force, if that means of passage is not open to customers
during the periods when the sale or consumption of intoxicating liquor in
premises of the said kind is not permitted under this Act;

(b)premises of a kind mentioned in section 3(1)(a) or (b) and

(i)other premises of either such kind; or

(ii)premises in which the only business carried on is the business of selling
intoxicating liquor by wholesale.


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