COMMENTARY ON SECTIONS General Section 32 – Restriction on making representations following provisional statement
81.By virtue of this section, in cases where a premises licence is later sought for premises in relation to which a provisional statement has been issued, interested parties and responsible authorities will not be able to make representations on such applications in respect of matters upon which representations could have been made by them when the provisional statement was applied for. Subsection (3) provides that this restriction will not apply if a person who wishes to make those representations has a reasonable excuse for not having made those representations at the time of the application for the provisional statement, or if there has been a material change in the circumstances relating to those premises or the vicinity of those premises since that time. For example, a person may have been confined to hospital during the period in which representations could have been made in circumstances where arrangements could not have been put in place for representations to be made.