Licensing Act (Ireland) 1874

Definitions.

“Town.”

9 Geo. 4. c. 82.

3 & 4 Vict. c. 108.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 103.

“License.”

“Wholesale beer dealer's license.”

“Occasional license.”

25 & 26 Vict. c. 22.

27 & 28 Vict. c. 18.

“New license,” &c.

“Licensing justices.”

“Register of licenses.”

“Clerk to the licensing justices.”

37. In the principal Act and in this Act the following terms have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant thereto; namely,

“Town” shall mean and include—

Any parliamentary or municipal borough ;

Any towns having commissioners under the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act 1828 ;

Any town having municipal commissioners under the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840;

Any town having town commissioners or commissioners under the Towns Improvement Act, 1854, or under any Local and Personal Act :

“License” shall mean any license for sale of any intoxicating liquor granted by an officer of excise in Ireland upon production, in the police district of Dublin metropolis, of a certificate of the recorder of the city of Dublin, or of a divisional justice, and elsewhere of a certificate of any recorder of a city or borough, or of justices, under the provisions of any Act now or hereafter requiring such certificate, but shall not include an excise license as defined by section eighty-one of the principal Act, or a wholesale beer dealer's license, as herein-after defined :

“Wholesale beer dealer's license” shall mean a license to any person not being a brewer of beer, authorising the sale of strong beer only in casks containing not less than four and a half gallons imperial measure, or in not less than two dozen reputed quart bottles at one time, to be drunk or consumed elsewhere than on the premises of such person :

“Occasional license” shall mean a license to sell beer, spirits, or wine granted in pursuance of the thirteenth section of the Revenue Act, 1862, and section five of the Revenue (No. 1) Act, 1864, and the Acts amending the same in relation to the licenses therein mentioned, or of any of such Acts:

“New license,” “new excise license,” and “new wholesale beer dealer's license,” shall mean respectively a license, excise license, and wholesale beer dealer's license granted in respect of premises in respect of which a similar license has not theretofore been granted, or, if granted, has been annulled or has not been in force during the preceding six months:

The term “licensing justices” shall mean as to licenses granted in pursuance of certificates granted at quarter sessions, and as to renewals or transfers of such licenses, the justices or authority empowered to grant such certificates at quarter sessions, and as to other licenses, excise licenses, and wholesale beer dealer's licenses the justices or justice empowered to grant certificates for the same respectively ;

“Register of licenses” shall mean the list or register directed to be kept by this Act :

The term “clerk to the licensing justices” shall mean the person who keeps the register of licenses.

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[S. 38 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]