Sweeping changes to Northern Ireland's licensing laws have been approved by the assembly.
The Licensing and Registration of Clubs Bill passed its final stage at Stormont this afternoon and will now go forward for Royal Assent.
The new laws will modernise pubs, allowing them to open until 3am as well as new opening hours over Easter.
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey said there was a need to balance the modernisation of licensing laws with health considerations.
She said: "We're updating our laws into 2021, where they should be."
The principal deputy speaker put the Bill to an oral vote, which was passed.
Licensing laws were last updated in the 1990s. A bid to update the legislation was progressing through the Assembly before the collapse of powersharing in 2017 but that Bill was lost when the institutions collapsed.
