Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1833

Licences may be granted to persons not previously licensed, on production of certificate and payment of duty.

6. It shall and may be lawful for the proper officers of excise in Ireland, within their respective districts, to grant, under the provisions of the said recited Act, a licence or licences for the sale of beer, cider, and spirits to sell in Ireland by retail, in any house specified in such licence, beer, cider, and spirits respectively, to be consumed in such house or elsewhere, to any person, though not licensed the year preceding, whom the justices of the peace for the city, town, county, or district within which such house is situate, in quarter sessions assembled as hereinbefore provided, shall not deem it improper to intrust with such licence, and to whom they shall not, by order there made, prohibit such licence to be issued, upon the person applying for such licence producing such certificate as aforesaid to such officer of excise, and complying with the other conditions of this Act, . . . such person first paying for such licence or licences the duties of excise for and in respect of such licence or licences, according to the rate and in the manner prescribed by the said recited Act, or any other Act or Acts then in force with respect to such licences.

[S. 7 as to bond to be entered into by party requiring a licence, rep. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 103. s. 4.]