How many licensing boards there are and what area each board covers.

There are currently 43 licensing boards. These cover the same areas as their respective local authority except for:
Aberdeenshire, where the area is served by three licensing boards covering North; Central, and South Aberdeenshire.
Dumfries and Galloway, where the area is served by four licensing boards covering Annandale and Eskdale; Nithsdale; Stewartry, and Wigtown.
Highland, where the area is served by four licensing boards covering Ross, Skye and Lochaber; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.
Scottish Borders, where the area is served by two licensing boards covering West and East. Scottish Borders is currently in the process of disestablishing these boards and constituting a single Scottish Borders Licensing Board.
South Lanarkshire, where the area is served by three licensing boards covering Clydesdale; East Kilbride; Hamilton, and Cambuslang and Rutherglen.