The Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1987

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1987 No. 1277 — creates 4 criminal offences.

4offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 21 July 1987
In force from: Not determined
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Alcohol licensing, gambling, smoke-free and public health
Made under: Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 1971. The main amendments are— a to prohibit the consumption of intoxicating liquor at entertainments organised for gain; b to provide new general permitted hours for off-sales; c to extend the permitted hours for public houses, airport refreshment rooms and theatres to the same hours on Sunday and Christmas Day as for hotels and restaurants; d to provide for public houses which meet certain standards to have the same additional permitted hours as hotels and restaurants; e to extend the places of public entertainment which may obtain a licence; f to provide for public houses to keep accommodation for guests; g to enable the court to suspend the operation of certain aspects of the licence; and h to increase the penalties for certain offences.

Offences created by this instrument

Penalty for consumption of intoxicating liquor at entertainments organised for gain article 52A(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Any person acting in contravention of subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on… article 57(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Provision for inspection and rights of entry article 67(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Provision for inspection and rights of entry article 67(2)(b) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 Lords · Lords Chamber · 16 July 1987
Licensing And Clubs (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 Lords · Lords Chamber · 17 October 1989
I turn now to Article 5 which introduces a ban on the sale of alcohol from all off-sales outlets after 9 p.m. It is the most important part of the order, and is really an extension of provisions in the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, which banned sales from freestanding off-licences after 9 p.m. The ban did not extend to off-sales from pubs or the off-sales outlets attached to them, which were able to continue with off-sales to 11 p.m.
Licensing And Clubs (Northern Ireland) Commons · Commons Chamber · 31 October 1989 · Mr. James Kilfedder (North Down)
When the Government introduced the draft Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, to which the Minister has just referred, which banned sales from off-licence shops after 9 pm, complaints were made that the order discriminated in favour of public houses, which could continue to sell alcohol for consumption outside until 11 pm. Not only did the order financially hurt off-licences but it meant that customers could still buy quantities of drink for consumption off the premises from public houses. The 1987 order thus defeated the purpose of closing off-licences at 9 pm, which was to restrict the…
Licensing And Clubs (Northern Ireland) Commons · Commons Chamber · 31 October 1989 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Richard Needham)
I beg to move, That the draft Licensing and Clubs (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, which was laid before this House on 25th July, be approved. The order is short, containing only nine articles. In 1987, the Government made significant changes to the licensing law in Northern Ireland. These were contained in the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1987. The present order is intended to complement those earlier reforms. Articles 1 and 2 are introductory. Article 3 deals with the products that can be sold on licensed premises. The present law restricts public houses and off-licences to…
Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 Lords · Lords Chamber · 20 February 1990 · Lord Prys-Davies
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Skelmersdale, has explained that the order is purely a consolidation measure. I assume from that that the licensing law in Northern Ireland works pretty well and that there is no mischief that needs to be addressed in legislation. I shall detain the House for no more than a moment or two. I note from a cursory examination of its articles that it replaces the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, the Licensing (International Airports) (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 and the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 in…

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source

This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
Other instruments from 1987