Betting Act, 1926

Certificate of personal fitness.

3.—(1) Any person (other than a body corporate or an un-incorporated body of persons) desiring to obtain a bookmaker's licence may apply in the prescribed manner to the Superintendent of the Gárda Síochána of the district in which he has or proposes to have an office registered under this Act or, if he has not and does not propose to have any such office, to the Superintendent of the Gárda Síochána for the district in which he ordinarily resides for a certificate (in this Act referred to as a certificate of personal fitness) that he is a fit and proper person to have a bookmaker's licence. Such application must be approved by two Peace Commissioners for the district in which the applicant re-sides, whose approval shall be testified by their signature to the application; and an advertisement shall be inserted by the applicant in at least two newspapers circulating in the district of his intention to apply for such bookmaker's licence not less than a fortnight nor more than a month before the date of the making of the application.

(2) A superintendent of the Gárda Síoehána to whom an application for a certificate of personal fitness is duly made under this section shall, within fourteen days after the receipt of such application, do one or other as he in his discretion shall think proper of the following things, that is to say, either give to the applicant a certificate in the prescribed form that he is a fit and proper person to have a bookmaker's licence or on any one or more of the grounds hereinafter authorised refuse to give such certificate.