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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-89",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1322",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Entertainment Resort Complex, Bedford) Special Development (No. 2) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-entertainment-resort-complex-bedford-special-development-no-2-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/89",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Opening hours",
  "text": "(1) After Grand Opening, the times during which the ticketed area is open to visitors must comply with this paragraph.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (6), on any calendar day, the ticketed area must not—\n(a) open to visitors earlier than 7 am;\n(b) close to visitors later than 11 pm.\n(3) On up to 30 occasions in a calendar year when a special event takes place in the ticketed area, that area, having opened to visitors on one calendar day, may remain open to visitors after 11 pm on that calendar day, but must close no later than 1 am on the next calendar day.\n(4) Subject to sub-paragraphs (5) and (6), on up to 65 occasions in a calendar year when a seasonal event takes place in the ticketed area, that area, having opened to visitors on one calendar day (the “seasonal event start date”) may remain open to visitors after 11 pm on the seasonal event start date.\n(5) On five occasions where—\n(a) the ticketed area remains open to visitors after 11 pm on a seasonal event start date under sub-paragraph (4), and\n(b) the seasonal event start date is within 7 calendar days of the first day of the Chinese New Year, 5th November, the day of Diwali, or 25th or 31st December,\nthe ticketed area must close to visitors no later than 1 am on the calendar day following the seasonal event start date.\n(6) On all other occasions where the ticketed area remains open to visitors after 11 pm on a seasonal event start date under sub-paragraph (4), the ticketed area must close to visitors no later than 2 am on the calendar day following the seasonal event start date.\n(7) For the purposes of this paragraph, the time when the ticketed area closes to visitors is the time by which all visitors are required to have left the ticketed area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1322/schedule/3/paragraph/89",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:08:22.499243+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."
}