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Part VIII.
Licensed Houses and Hospitals.
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Restrictions on New Licences.
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Restrictions on new licences.
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207.—(1) If the Commissioners in the case of a house within their immediate jurisdiction, or in the case of a house licensed by justices, the justices are of opinion that a house licensed for the reception of lunatics has been in all respects well conducted by the licensees, the Commissioners or justices may upon the expiration of the licence renew the licence for that house to the former licensees, or any one or more of them, or to their successors in business.
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[Sub-s. (2) rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49. (S.L.R.).]
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(3) If at any time it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners or the justices, as the case may be, that it would be for the comfort and advantage of the patients in any licensed house that another house should be substituted in place thereof, the Commissioners or justices may grant to the licensees of such first-mentioned house a licence in respect of such other house upon and subject to the same conditions and restrictions as may have existed in respect of the first-mentioned house.
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(4) In the case of joint licensees or proprietors who desire to carry on business apart from one another, if, in the opinion of the Commissioners or of the justices, as the case may be, the establishment conducted by them jointly, and also any new house which any of them desires to conduct, answers the conditions herein-before required for granting renewed licences, the Commissioners or justices, as the case may be, may grant to each of such licensees or proprietors renewed licences for such number of patients (not exceeding in the aggregate the number allowed by the joint licence) as such joint licensees or proprietors agree upon, or, failing their agreement, as the Commissioners or justices determine.
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(5) Where the licensee of a house is a medical man in the employment of the proprietor of such house as his manager, the licence shall be transferable or renewable to such licensee so long as he continues manager of the house, or to the proprietor, or to any other medical manager while employed by the proprietor in the place of the former manager
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(6) Save as in this section provided, no new licence shall be granted to any person for a house for the reception of lunatics, and no house in respect of which there is at the passing of this Act an existing licence shall be licensed for a greater number of lunatics than the number authorised by the existing licence.
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Jurisdiction of Commissioners and Justices.
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