Drinking Alcohol Law in the UK

In most countries, there are laws that require establishments to close at a certain hour and to remain closed for a set number of hours. Some of these establishments may be able to open, but may face alcohol restrictions, which means that while they may open their doors, they must wait till certain times to serve the alcoholic beverages. However this is not the case in the UK, where the law allows alcohol sellers in Wales, Scotland and England to apply for a 24 hour, 7 days a week license.

Some people have extremely different opinions about what they think will happen if all of the pubs and bars will be able to serve alcohol 24 hours a day, every day of the week. Some of these people believe there will be a higher amount of alcohol induced disturbances, which will cause more crimes and misbehavior. While others believe the situation will be completely the opposite. They believe that there will be fewer incidents, than there is when you have large crowds of drunken people on the street at the same time. The thinking is that allowing people to leave at different times will keep down the amount of drunken incidents.

The law itself allows these venues to have more flexible hours up to 24 hours a day. The stipulation is that these bars and pubs to make an application then they must allow the local police and the members of the surrounding community a chance to object to the hours. Additionally, once a pub has obtained the license for the additional hours should have incidents of disorderly conduct, they will be required to pay the price of any extra police services needed to maintain the peace.