Public House (Ireland) Act, 1855

Transfer of victuallers’ licences.

1. Upon the death of any person duly licensed to carry on the business of a licensed victualler, and to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be consumed on the premises, in Ireland, or upon the removal of any such person from the house or premises at which he is authorized by any such licence to carry on such business as aforesaid in Ireland, or the sale of or assignment of his interest therein by operation of law or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace of the district within which any such licensed house or premises shall be situated, assembled at petty sessions, or the justices in any liberty, city, town, or place within which any such licensed house or premises shall be situated, assembled at petty sessions, at any time when no quarter sessions shall be holden for any such county, riding, division, liberty, city, town, or place, (if they shall think proper so to do, after examining upon oath all necessary parties,) to transfer, by endorsement thereon, any and every such licence as aforesaid then in force to any person, not disqualified by law, to whom it shall be proposed at the time of such application to transfer any such licence, to use, exercise, and carry on the business of a licensed victualler at the same house and on the same premises, and there to sell such exciseable liquors as might theretofore have been lawfully sold and retailed therein; and thereupon it shall be lawful for such person so to use, exercise, and carry on the said business at such house and premises, until the quarter sessions of the peace which shall be holden for the same county, riding, division, liberty, city, town, or place next after the expiration of one calendar month from the time of such transfer, and no longer.