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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Review of Licensing Board's decision to vary or suspend licence",
  "text": "Where a Licensing Board has made a variation under subsection (2)(b) of section 39 or suspended the licence under subsection (2)(c) of that section, the Board may—\n(a) on the application of the licence holder, and\n(b) if satisfied that, by reason of a change of circumstances, the variation or suspension is no longer necessary,\nrevoke the variation or suspension.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 1.2.2008 by S.S.I. 2007/472, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/section/40",
    "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."
}