Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988

Cancellation of Bord Fáilte Certificate.

13.—(1) Where it appears to the Board that a restaurant in respect of which a Bord Fáilte Certificate is in force no longer complies with the standards specified in section 8 or, as the case may be, under section 12 , the Board shall give or send by post to the holder thereof a notice—

(a) stating that it appears to the Board as aforesaid,

(b) requiring the holder to take specified steps within a specified period in order to bring the restaurant into compliance with the standards aforesaid, and

(c) informing the holder that, if the requirements in the notice are not complied with, the Board will cancel the Certificate.

(2) If the holder of a Bord Fáilte Certificate fails or refuses to comply with a requirement in a notice under subsection (1), the Board shall cancel the Certificate.

(3) Whenever the Board cancels a Bord Fáilte Certificate, the Board shall give written notice that the Certificate has been cancelled and is no longer in force to—

(a) the holder of the special restaurant licence in relation to which such Certificate was granted,

(b) the district court clerk for the district court area in which the premises to which the Certificate relates are situated,

(c) the Revenue Commissioners, and

(d) the superintendent of the Garda Síochána for the Garda district in which the premises to which the Certificate relates are situated.