Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 495

LICENSING (LIQUOR)
The Port of Folkestone Licensing (Liquor) Order 1995

Made
28th February 1995

Coming into force
7th March 1995

Whereas by section 86A of the Licensing Act 1964(1) the Secretary of State may bring that section into operation at any port which appears to him to be one at which there is a substantial amount of international passenger traffic;
And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State for Transport that the port of Folkestone is a port at which there is a substantial amount of such traffic;
And whereas there is at the port of Folkestone an approved wharf (within the meaning of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979(2)) and the Secretary of State for Transport is satisfied that arrangements have been made for affording reasonable facilities on licensed premises within that approved wharf for obtaining hot and cold beverages other than intoxicating liquor at all times when intoxicating liquor is obtainable on those premises:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of his powers under the said section 86A and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Port of Folkestone Licensing (Liquor) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 7th March 1995.

2.  Section 86A of the Licensing Act 1964 is hereby brought into operation at the port of Folkestone.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

R. Clarke
An Under Secretary in the
Department of Transport
28th February 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 86A of the Licensing Act 1964 provides that, at an international port where that section is in operation, section 59 of that Act (which prohibits the sale, supply, or consumption of intoxicating liquor in licensed premises, or the taking of intoxicating liquor from such premises, except during the permitted hours) shall not apply to licensed premises which are within an approved wharf (within the meaning of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979). This Order brings section 86A into operation at the port of Folkestone.


(1)
1964 c. 26; section 86A was inserted by section 18(1) of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40).

(2)
1979 c. 2.