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Issue of bookmaker's licences.
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5.—(1) Any person to whom a certificate of personal fitness has been given may within twenty-one days after the issue of such certificate apply to the Revenue Commissioners in writing in the prescribed form for a bookmaker's licence for such period not exceeding one year and commencing on such date not later than fourteen days after the date of the application as he shall specify in the application.
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(2) Upon delivery of such application as aforesaid to the Revenue Commissioners and payment to the Revenue Commissioners by the applicant of the excise duty for the time being required by law to be paid by persons taking out a bookmaker's licence for the period specified in the application, the Revenue Commissioners shall issue to the applicant a bookmaker's licence expressed to be in force for such period not exceeding one year and commencing on such date not being later than fourteen days after the date of such application as shall have been specified in that behalf in such application.
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(3) Every bookmaker's licence shall be in the prescribed form and shall operate and be expressed to authorise the person to whom it is issued (who shall be named therein) to act and carry on business as a bookmaker so long as the licence remains in force, but subject and without prejudice to all restrictions and prohibitions for the time being imposed by law in respect of the places in which the business of bookmaking may be carried on.
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(4) Unless and until revoked under this Act, every bookmaker's licence shall remain in force during the period specified in that behalf therein.
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