Section 43 Objections to grant or variation of licences.

After section 63(4) of the 1968 Act (which requires objections to the grant or variation of operators’ licences to be made within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner) there shall be inserted—

“(4A)

Where the licensing authority considers there to be exceptional circumstances that justify his doing so, he may direct that an objection be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act as duly made under this section, notwithstanding that it was not made within the prescribed time or in the prescribed manner.”