{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-40A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-40A.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/40A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40A",
  "heading": "Connected persons: licence holder's duty to notify changes",
  "text": "(1) A premises licence holder must, not later than one month after a person becomes or ceases to be—\n(a) a connected person in relation to the licence holder, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\ngive the appropriate Licensing Board notice of that fact.\n(2) A notice under subsection (1) that a person has become a connected person ... must specify—\n(a) the name and address of the person, and\n(b) if the person is an individual, the person's date of birth.\n(3) Where a Licensing Board receives a notice under subsection (1), the Board must give a copy of the notice to the chief constable.\n(4) A premises licence holder who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 40A inserted (13.12.2010 for specified purposes, 29.6.2018 in so far as not already in force) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 184(2), 206(1); S.S.I. 2010/413, art. 2, sch.; S.S.I. 2018/102, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 40A(1) repealed (29.6.2018) by Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 10), ss. 59(2)(a)(i), 88(2); S.S.I. 2018/102, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 40A(1)(b) repealed (29.6.2018) by Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 10), ss. 59(2)(a)(ii), 88(2); S.S.I. 2018/102, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 40A(2) repealed (29.6.2018) by Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 10), ss. 59(2)(b), 88(2); S.S.I. 2018/102, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 40A(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), s. 129(2), sch. 7 para. 29(2), (3); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 40A heading substituted (29.6.2018) by Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 10), ss. 59(2)(c), 88(2); S.S.I. 2018/102, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/section/40A",
    "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."
}