{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-of-pavement-cafes-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-of-pavement-cafes-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-17.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/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Compulsory variation: prohibition of alcohol",
  "text": "(1) A council may at any time vary a pavement café licence which does not include an alcohol condition by inserting such a condition, but this is subject to subsection (3).\n(2) In this section “an alcohol condition” means a condition requiring the licence holder not to permit persons to consume intoxicating liquor when using furniture on the area covered by the licence.\n(3) A council may insert such a condition only if—\n(a) the premises specified in the licence are premises licensed under the Licensing Order of a kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(b) of that Order (off-licences); or\n(b) the council is satisfied that permitting persons to consume intoxicating liquor when using furniture on the area covered by the licence would be likely to result in disorder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 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/17",
    "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."
}