{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003-hearings-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003-hearings-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003-hearings-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Period of time within which hearing to be held",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), hearings to be held under the provisions listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1 must be commenced within the period of time specified in column 2 of the table and in a case where the hearing is to be held on more than one day, the hearing must be arranged to take place on consecutive working days.\n(2) Hearings to be held under the provision listed in the entry numbered 15A in the table in Schedule 1 can be arranged to take place other than on consecutive working days if an authority considers this to be necessary—\n(a) for its consideration of any representations made by a party, or\n(b) in the public interest.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (31.10.2012) by The Licensing Act 2003 (Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Orders) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2551), regs. 1(2), (7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/44/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:50.236848+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}