Alcohol licensing 15 hearings may be held 23 Alcohol licensing: how (1) The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 is modified as follows. (2) After section 133 insert— “133A How hearings may be held (1) A Licensing Board may determine that a hearing is to be held— 20 (a) in person, (b) wholly through the use of remote facilities, or (c) partly in person and partly through the use of remote facilities. (2) In subsection (1), “remote facilities” means any equipment or facility which— (a) enables persons who are not in the same place to participate in the 25 hearing, and (b) enables those persons to speak to and be heard by each other (whether or not it enables those persons to see and be seen by each other).”. (3) In paragraph 12 of schedule 1 (proceedings)— (a) before sub-paragraph (1) insert— 30 “(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.”, (b) after sub-paragraph (2) insert— 35 Where a meeting is held wholly or partly through the use of remote facilities, “(2A) a Licensing Board complies with the requirement mentioned in sub-paragraph 23 Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Public service reform (2) by enabling the public to observe the meeting through the use of remote facilities (for example, by making a web...