{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-liquor-licensing-order-1974/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-liquor-licensing-order-1974/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/433",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Liquor Licensing) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-liquor-licensing-order-1974",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Compensation authorities",
  "text": "(1) Any proceedings before a compensation authority, being proceedings which have not been finally disposed of before 1st April 1974, shall be continued and disposed of as if the Local Government Act 1972 had not been passed.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, all property and liabilities vested in or attaching to the compensation authority for an existing administrative county specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 to this Order or for an existing county borough (hereafter in this Article referred to as the “transferor authority”) shall by virtue of this Order be transferred to and vest in or attach to the compensation authority for the new county specified in respect of such existing administrative county in column (2) of that Schedule, or in which such existing county borough is comprised, as the case may be (hereafter in this Article referred to as the “transferee authority”).\n(3) Any charge payable under section 17 of the Licensing Act 1964 which has been imposed but not paid before 1st April 1974 shall be recoverable by the compensation authority for the new county in which the premises in respect of which the charge is payable are situated as if it had been imposed by that authority.\n(4) Where a compensation authority by whom proceedings are disposed of by virtue of paragraph (1) above refuse to renew or transfer an old on-licence, any compensation payable under section 14 of the Licensing Act 1964 shall be paid by the compensation authority for the new county in which the licensed premises are situated.\n(5) In relation to the accounts of the transferor authority, any action which had the Local Government Act 1972 not been passed would have fallen to be taken by that authority shall be taken by the transferee authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/433/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:46:10.730357+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."
}