Welsh Sunday drinking referendums scrapped
22 July 2003 by Samantha McClary
Rules that allowed the sale of alcohol on a Sunday in Wales to be banned have been scrapped, the Government announced today.
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Under the old rules, if at least 500 registered voters in any Welsh county or borough requested it, the local authority had to hold ballots in which people voted whether or not alcohol should be sold there on a Sunday.
Wales Office minister Don Touhig said: "This change is long overdue. It is clear that the vast majority of people in Wales are in favour of Sunday opening and it is right that the law has been bought up to date."
The polls were last held in 1996, when every area in Wales voted for alcohol to be sold on a Sunday.
