Legislation – Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022

“A1

A Licensing Board may determine that a meeting is to be held—

(a)

in person,

(b)

wholly through the use of remote facilities, or

(c)

partly in person and partly through the use of remote facilities.

A2

When determining how a meeting is to be held, a Licensing Board must take account of any views given on that issue by any person who notifies the Board of an intention to participate in the meeting.”,

“(2A)

Where a meeting is held wholly or partly through the use of remote facilities, a Licensing Board complies with the requirement mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) by enabling the public to observe the meeting through the use of remote facilities (for example, by making a web link to the meeting publicly available).”,

“(7)

In this paragraph, “remote facilities” means any equipment or facility which—

(a)

enables persons who are not in the same place to participate in the meeting, and

(b)

enables those persons to speak to and be heard by each other (whether or not it enables those person to see and be seen by each other).”.