Finance Act, 1998

Amendment of provisions relating to refreshment houses licences.

84.—The Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860 , is hereby amended—

(a) in section 8 (as amended by section 96 of, and the Sixth Schedule to, the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 ), by the deletion of the following:

“Provided always, that no licence to sell foreign wine by retail to be consumed on the premises shall be granted for any refreshment house which, with the premises belonging thereto and occupied therewith, shall be under the value of eight pounds a year, nor for any refreshment house situated in any city, borough, town or place containing a population exceeding ten thousand according to the then last Parliamentary census, if such refreshment house, with the premises belonging thereto and occupied therewith, shall be under the value of fifteen pounds a year; and”,

and

(b) in section 13 (as amended by section 50 (2)(b) of the Finance Act, 1989 ), by the deletion of “, and the net annual value of such house, according to the valuation thereof last made for poor law purposes under the laws then in force” and by the deletion of “or not of the annual value required by this Act,”.