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Licences granted under 23 & 24 Vict. cc. 27. and 107 may be transferred as other excise licences under 6 Geo. 4. c. 81. s. 21. in case of the removal of the licensed person.
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15. The provisions contained in the twenty-first section of the Excise Licences Act, 1825, relating to the transfer of excise licences in the case of the removal of any person from the house or premises at which he shall be licensed under that Act, shall be and the same are hereby extended to licences granted under the Refreshment Houses Act, 1860, and the Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860, respectively: Provided, that no licence granted under either of the two last-mentioned Acts for the sale of foreign wine by retail to be consumed upon the premises where the same shall be sold shall be transferred by the officers of Excise, unless the assignee of such licence shall be duly licensed to keep a refreshment house, nor unless he shall produce to such officers a certificate from a justice of the peace acting for the city, borough, town, or place in which the house and premises are situated, that such justice does not object to such transfer being made; and provided, that no such licence so transferred shall authorize the assignee to carry on the business mentioned therein for a longer period than five weeks from the date of such transfer, unless he shall in the meantime have qualified himself to become the holder of a licence of the like kind according to the provisions of the said respective Acts.
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