On Licences
1. Permitted Hours
Alcohol shall not be sold or supplied except during permitted hours.
1) On weekdays, other than Christmas Day, Good Friday or New Year’s Eve, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
2) On Sundays, other than Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve, 12 noon to 10.30 p.m.
3) On Good Friday, 12 noon to 10.30 p.m.
4) On Christmas Day, 12 noon to 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.
5) On New Year’s Eve, except on a Sunday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
6) On New Year’s Eve on a Sunday, 12 noon to 10.30 p.m
7) On New Year’s Eve from the end of permitted hours on New Year’s Eve to the start of permitted hours on the following day.
Restrictions
The above restrictions do not prohibit:
a) during the first twenty minutes after the above hours the consumption of alcohol on the premises;
b) during the first twenty minutes after the above hours, the taking of alcohol from the premises unless the alcohol is supplied or taken in an open vessel;
c) during the first thirty minutes after the above hours the consumption of alcohol on the premises by persons taking meals there if the alcohol was supplied for
consumption as ancillary to the meals;
d) consumption of alcohol on the premises or the taking of sale or supply of alcohol to any person residing in the licensed premises;
e) the ordering of alcohol to be consumed off the premises, or the despatch by the vendor of alcohol so ordered;
f) the sale of alcohol to a trader or club for the purposes of the trade or club;
g) the sale or supply of alcohol to any canteen or mess, being a canteen in which the sale or supply of alcohol is carried out under the authority of the Secretary of State or an authorised mess of members of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces;
h) the taking of alcohol from the premises by a person residing there; or
i) the supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by him at his own expense, or the consumption of alcohol by persons so supplied; or
j) the supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises to persons employed there for the purposes of the business carried on by the holder of the licence, or the consumption of alcohol so supplied, if the liquor is supplied at the expense of their employer or of the person carrying on or in charge of the business on the premises.
2. Premises with no children’s certificate-
No person under fourteen shall be in the bar of the licensed premises during the permitted hours unless one of the following applies:
a) He is the child of the holder of the premises licence.
b) He resides in the premises, but is not employed there.
c) He is in the bar solely for the purpose of passing to or from some part of the premises which is not a bar and to or from which there is no other convenient means of access or egress.
d) The bar is in railway refreshment rooms or other premises constructed, fitted and intended to be used bona fide for any purpose to which the holding of the licence is ancillary.
In this condition “bar” includes any place exclusively or mainly used for the consumption of alcohol. But an area is not a bar when it is usual for it to be, and it is, set apart for the service of table meals and alcohol is only sold or supplied to persons as an ancillary to their table meals.
Source Section 168,171 and 201 Licensing Act 1964
4. Late Night Refreshment
The Licence may also provide and permit the consumption of late night refreshment for a period of 30 minutes after the permitted hours set out above, and on New Years Eve until 5am on New Years Day.
5. Recorded Music
Premises licensed for the sale and supply of alcohol may provide, at any time, regulated entertainment by the reproduction of wireless, including television broadcast and of public entertainment by way of music and singing only which is provided solely by the reproduction of recorded sound.
Source Section 182 Licensing Act 1964
Licence Conditions
1. Subject to condition 3 below, intoxicating liquor shall be sold and supplied only to persons taking tables meals upon the premises and for consumption by such a person as an ancillary to his meal.
2. Suitable beverages other than intoxicating liquor (including drinking water) shall be equally available for consumption with or otherwise as an ancillary to a meal.
3. There shall be no off sales other than to persons taking table meals within the defined areas as approved by the Licensing Justices and in respect of which the licensee has been given permission by the Brighton Borough Council to erect tables and chairs for the service of customers and any such sales shall be confined to persons taking table meals who are personally served by the licensee or a member of his staff.
4. The area of the highway so approved shall be a shown on the deposited plan
5. The area so approved by the Licensing Justices must be clearly defined by a chain or rope.