Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988

Amendment of section 12 of Act of 1927 (restaurant certificates).

48.—Section 12 of the Act of 1927 is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (1A) (inserted by section 8 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1943 ) of the following subsection:

“(1B) Where, following application pursuant to section 4 of the Courts (No. 2) Act, 1986 , to an officer of the Revenue Commissioners for the renewal of an on-licence without the production of a certificate of the District Court, the applicant applies to the Court to certify that the premises in respect of which the renewal of the on-licence is sought are a restaurant for the purposes of this Act, the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply and have effect as if that application to the Court were an application, in accordance with that subsection, for a restaurant certificate.”.