Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927

Restaurant certificate.

12.—(1) Where on the occasion of any application for a certificate for a new on-licence or a certificate for the transfer or renewal of an on-licence, the applicant requests the Court to certify that the premises in respect of which the certificate is sought are a restaurant for the purposes of this Act, the Court, if satisfied after hearing the officer in charge of the Gárda Síochána for the licensing area that such premises are structurally adapted for use and bona fide and mainly used as a restaurant, refreshment house or other place for supplying substantial meals to the public, shall grant to such applicant a certificate (in this section referred to as a restaurant certificate) certifying that such premises are a restaurant for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Court shall not entertain an application for a restaurant certificate unless and until satisfied that not less than ten days before the date on which the application is proposed to be made notice in writing of the intention to make the application was given to the officer in charge of the Gárda Síochána for the licensing area.

(3) Every restaurant certificate shall unless sooner revoked under this section remain in force until the next annual licensing district court for the licensing area.

(4) A Justice of the District Court may, on the application of the officer in charge of the Gárda Síochána for the licensing area, at any time revoke a restaurant certificate if he is satisfied, after hearing such officer and the holder of such certificate, that the premises to which such certificate relates have ceased to be structurally adapted for the use or to be bona fide or mainly used as a restaurant, refreshment house or other place for the supplying of substantial meals to the public.

(5) Every holder of a restaurant certificate shall cause such certificate to be displayed prominently in the premises to which such certificate relates.