Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1960

Meaning of “hotel” in the Act of 1902.

21.—(1) Paragraph (2) (which provides for the licensing of hotels) of section 2 of the Act of 1902 is hereby amended by the substitution for “at least ten apartments” of “at least ten, or, if situate in a county borough (which expression shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to include the Dublin Metropolitan District), twenty apartments”.

(2) The amendment effected by subsection (1) of this section shall not operate to prevent the grant of a certificate entitling the holder to receive a licence by virtue of paragraph (2) of section 2 of the Act of 1902 in respect of a house containing more than nine and less than twenty apartments set apart and used exclusively for the sleeping accommodation of travellers, having no public bar for the sale of intoxicating liquor and situate in a county borough (which expression shall be deemed, for the purposes of this subsection, to include the Dublin Metropolitan District) if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court hearing the application for the certificate—

(a) that a licence (in this subsection referred to as the former licence) which was granted by virtue of paragraph (2) of section 2 of the Act of 1902 in respect of the house has expired and has not since been renewed, and

(b) if the notice of the application for the certificate required to be given by rules of court to the appropriate County Registrar or the appropriate District Court Clerk, as the case may be, is given more than two years after the passing of this Act, that the day on which the former licence last expired is not more than five years before the day on which the notice aforesaid was given.