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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-of-pavement-cafes-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-of-pavement-cafes-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2014/9",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing of Pavement Cafés Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-of-pavement-cafes-act-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Meaning of “pavement café licence” and other key terms",
  "text": "(1) In this Act a “pavement café licence” means a licence authorising the licence holder to place on a public area (identified by the licence) temporary furniture for use for the consumption of food or drink supplied, in the course of a business carried on by the licence holder, in or from premises specified in the licence.\n(2) In this Act “a public area” means a place in the open air—\n(a) to which the public has access, without payment, as of right; and\n(b) which is not in a market area.\n(3) For the purposes of this Act, “furniture” means all or any of the following—\n(a) tables;\n(b) chairs;\n(c) umbrellas, barriers, heaters and other articles for facilitating the use, by persons consuming food or drink, of tables and chairs in a public area.\n(4) For the purposes of this Act, furniture placed on a public area by or on behalf of a person is “temporary” if that person can remove, or cause to be removed, all of it in 20 minutes.\n(5) In subsection (4) “remove” means remove to a place which is not a public area.\n(6) In this Act “supplied”, in relation to food or drink, means supplied to members of the public or of a section of the public.\n(7) In this Act references to placing a thing are to placing it personally or by an employee or agent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in operation at 1.10.2016 by S.R. 2016/126, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/9/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:20.411473+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."
}