Justice Secretary, Kenny McAskill has confirmed that it would be "common sense" to postpone the enforcement of the new licensing law on 1 September 2009, requiring premises selling drink to have a designated manager with a personal licence to sell alcohol.
The legal position now is that those who have applied for a personal licence by the end of August can carry on trading after September 1, allowing those who have not yet received their licence to continue selling drink. Mr McAskill has "taken the decision to lay further regulations to give some leeway and allow managers who have applied by the end of August to continue selling alcohol if they have not received their licence by September 1." Prior to Mr. McAskill's decision to make this change, the position was that if you did not have a licence by September 1 then you could not sell alcohol and if you did so, you would have fallen foul of the law, facing some hefty penalties.
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