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BEER RETAILERS' AND SPIRIT GROCERS' RETAIL LICENCES (IRELAND) ACT 1900
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CHAPTER XXX.
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An Act to amend the Laws relating to Beer Retailers’ and Spirit Grocers’ Licences in Ireland. [30th July 1900.]
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[Preamble.]
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Discretion to licensing justices to grant or refuse certificates.
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1. Notwithstanding anything in any Act the licensing justices shall be at liberty, in their free and unqualified discretion, either to refuse a certificate for any new excise or other licence for sale of beer or spirits by retail, to be consumed off the premises, on any grounds appearing to them sufficient, or to grant the same to such persons as they, in the execution of their statutory powers, and in the exercise of their discretion deem fit and proper, and for the purposes aforesaid shall be at liberty to hear and receive and act upon any objection and any evidence either in support thereof or in aid of the application made or tendered by any resident or owner of property in the parish wherein are situate the house and premises in respect of which such certificate is applied for.
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Grant of certificates.
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2. Certificates for any such licences as aforesaid shall, notwithstanding anything in any Act, be granted at annual licensing sessions, and not at any other time.
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Exemption from application of 40 & 41 Vict. c. 4, s. 2.
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3. The provision requiring the production of a certificate as to the exclusive occupation of rated premises for a period of three months contained in section two of the Beer Licences Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1877, shall not apply to the case of a transfer of a licence being granted on the death or removal of the person in occupation of the rated premises immediately prior to the granting of such transfer.
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Short title and construction.
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4.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Beer Retailers’ and Spirit Grocers’ Retail Licences (Ireland) Act, 1900, and may be cited with the Licensing (Ireland) Acts, 1833 to 1886, and shall be construed as one with those Acts.
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