Beerhouses (Ireland) Act, 1864

Certificate of justices required before grant of beer licence.

3. Save as herein-after mentioned, it shall not be lawful for any officer of Excise in Ireland to grant a licence or transfer of a licence for the sale of beer by retail, to be drunk or consumed elsewhere than on the premises where sold, to any person applying for such licence or transfer of a licence, or to grant a renewal of any such licence as aforesaid to any person applying for such renewal, without such person producing a certificate signed by two or more justices of the peace presiding at the petty sessions of the district in which such person resides, or if in the Dublin Metropolitan Police District by a divisional justice of the district in which such person resides, to the good character of such person, and the suitability of the premises for the purpose of such sale, and where the application shall be for the transfer of an existing licence or the renewal of a licence for the same house as shall have been licensed in the year last immediately preceding, and which licence shall not have been withdrawn or annulled, without a similar certificate to the good character of the person applying for such renewal, or of the person to whom such transfer is proposed to be made, and to the peaceable and orderly manner in which such house had been conducted in the past year.