Betting Act, 1926

Temporary licences and registration pending appeal.

11.—(1) Whenever an application for a certificate of personal fitness is refused by a superintendent of the Gárda Síochátia and an appeal from such refusal to the District Court is lodged, then if the applicant at the time of making the application was and had been for not less than nine months previously a licensed bookmaker, the Revenue Commissioners may, without payment of any duty but subject to such conditions as they may think fit to impose, issue to such applicant a temporary bookmaker's licence for such period not extending beyond the expiration of seven days after the decision of such appeal as they may think fit, and every such temporary bookmaker's licence shall while it remains in force be a bookmaker's licence within the meaning of this Act.

(2) Whenever an application for a certificate of suitability of premises in respect of premises which are registered premises at the date of such application is refused by the superintendent of the Gárda Síochána and an appeal from such refusal to the District Court is lodged the Revenue Commissioners may, without the payment of any duty but subject to such conditions as they may think fit to impose, retain such premises on the register of bookmaking offices pending the decision of such appeal.