Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988

Objection by Garda Síochána to renewal of special restaurant licence.

10.—Where application is made for the renewal of a special restaurant licence, the superintendent of the Garda Síochána for the Garda district in which the restaurant, the subject of the application, is situated or any inhabitant of the parish or health authority within the meaning of the Health Act in whose functional area the restaurant is situated may, without prejudice to any other ground of objection available to him under the Acts, object to the renewal of the licence on the following ground, namely, that the premises concerned have not been bona fide and solely used as a restaurant within the meaning of this Act since the grant of the licence or the latest renewal thereof, whichever last occurred, and, if the District Court upholds such objection, the special restaurant licence shall not be renewed by the Revenue Commissioners.