{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A councillor is disqualified from election as, and from being, a member of a Licensing Board if the councillor is—\n(a) a premises licence holder,\n(b) an employee of a premises licence holder and works as such in licensed premises,\n(c) whether alone or in partnership with another person, engaged in the business of producing or selling alcohol,\n(d) a director or other officer of a company so engaged, or\n(e) an employee of any person so engaged and works as such in that business.\n(2) A councillor who knowingly acts or purports to act as a member of a Licensing Board at a time when the councillor is disqualified from being such a member by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) commits an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 1.5.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/129, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:20.073733+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."
}