{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/section-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/section-135.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/13",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011",
  "path": "section/135",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Permitted exemption and reduction categories",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may prescribe—\n(a) categories of holders of relevant late night alcohol authorisations or relevant late night refreshment authorisations in relation to whom, if a licensing authority so decides, no requirement to pay a late night levy is to apply (“permitted exemption categories”);\n(b) categories of holders of relevant late night alcohol authorisations or relevant late night refreshment authorisations in relation to whom, if a licensing authority so decides, a reduced amount of a levy is to apply (“permitted reduction categories”).\n(2) References in subsection (1) to a decision of a licensing authority are to a decision by the authority under section 132(1)(b)(ii) or (iii) or 133(1)(c) that the category in question is to apply ....\n(3) Without prejudice to section 136(3), categories of holders may be prescribed for this purpose by reference, in particular, to—\n(a) participation in arrangements of particular descriptions;\n(b) particular descriptions of premises in respect of which authorisations are held.\n(4) Regulations under subsection (1) which prescribe permitted reduction categories must also prescribe, in relation to each such category—\n(a) what the reduced amount of a levy is, or\n(b) the manner in which the reduced amount of a levy is to be calculated,\nand must provide for the reduced amount of a late night levy, or the manner in which it is to be calculated, to be the same, in respect of all late night levy requirements, for all holders of relevant late night alcohol authorisations or relevant late night refreshment authorisations in that category ....",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(1)(a) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(2)(a); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(1)(a) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(2)(b); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(1)(b) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(2)(c); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(1)(b) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(2)(d); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(2) omitted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(3); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(4)(a) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(4)(a); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(4)(b) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(4)(b); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(4) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(4)(c)(i); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(4) inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(4)(c)(ii); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(4) substituted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(4)(c)(iii); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 135(4) omitted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 13.7.2023 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 18 para. 11(4)(c)(iv); S.I. 2023/789, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 135 in force at 31.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/2670, art. 2(b)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:27.716276+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."
}