{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-133A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-133A.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/133A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "133A",
  "heading": "How hearings may be held",
  "text": "(1) A Licensing Board may determine that a hearing is to be held—\n(a) in person,\n(b) wholly through the use of remote facilities, or\n(c) partly in person and partly through the use of remote facilities.\n(2) When determining how a hearing is to be held, a Licensing Board must take account of any views given on that issue by any person who notifies the Board of an intention to participate in the hearing.\n(3) In subsection (1), “remote facilities” means any equipment or facility which—\n(a) enables persons who are not in the same place to participate in the hearing, and\n(b) enables those persons to speak to and be heard by each other (whether or not it enables those persons to see and be seen by each other).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 133A inserted (1.10.2022) by Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 8), ss. 32(2), 59(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/section/133A",
    "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."
}