Post published on December 8, 2023.

A new Private Members’ Bill has been laid, seeking to amend the Licensing Act 2003 so that licensing hours Orders can be made by negative resolution statutory instrument.

This is a Private Members’ Bill and was presented to Parliament on Wednesday 6 December 2023 by Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck, Labour MP for South Shields, through the ballot procedure. The next stage for this Bill, Second reading, is scheduled to take place on Friday 19 January 2024.

If the text of the Bill is not yet available.