The Licensing (Minor Variations) (Scotland) Regulations 2011
Section 29 of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (“the 2005 Act”) deals with applications to vary a premises licence. In terms of section 30(2) of the 2005 Act an application for a minor variation must be granted by the Licensing Board. The variations that are to be treated as minor variations are set out in section 29(6) of the 2005 Act. Section 29(6)(d) enables Ministers to prescribe further descriptions of variations which are to be treated as minor variations for the purposes of section29(6).