{"id":9065,"date":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/05\/10\/the-licensing-act-2003-uefa-european-football-championship-licensing-hours-order-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"the-licensing-act-2003-uefa-european-football-championship-licensing-hours-order-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/the-licensing-act-2003-uefa-european-football-championship-licensing-hours-order-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Licensing Act 2003 (UEFA European Football Championship Licensing Hours) Order 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our <a href=\"\/news\/pubs-to-stay-open-late-if-england-or-scotland-reach-the-euros-semi-finals\/\">previous report<\/a>, the Government has now published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukdsi\/2024\/9780348261295\">The Licensing Act 2003 (UEFA European Football Championship Licensing Hours) Order 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this instrument is to introduce a contingent order that will only come into effect if one or both of the competing home nation teams (England and Scotland) reach the semi-final and\/or final of Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The order will provide venues in England and Wales with the option to extend licensing hours on the day of any semi-final (scheduled for 9 and\/or 10 July) involving a home nation team and on the day of final of the tournament (14 July) should a home nation team be participating for two hours from 11pm until 1am the following day for consumption of alcohol on the premises and provision of late night<br \/>refreshment in licenced premises to celebrate the England and\/or Scotland team(s) reaching the semi-finals and\/or the final of Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>For the avoidance of doubt, if neither of these teams reach the semi-final, then normal licensing hours will apply on 9 and 10 July. If either, or both, teams reach the semi-final, but neither team is in the final, normal licensing hours will apply on 14 July.<\/p>\n<p>This order will only apply to the on-sale of alcohol (i.e. consumption of alcohol on the premises). It will not apply to the off-sale of alcohol (i.e. consumption of alcohol off the premises).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our previous report, the Government has now published The Licensing Act 2003 (UEFA European Football Championship Licensing Hours) Order 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}