Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927

Abolition orders.

41.—(1) As soon as conveniently may be after the making of a reference order and in any event not later than the next following 31st day of December the compensation authority named in the reference order shall hear and determine the question whether the licence the subject of such reference order should or should not be abolished, and if on such hearing the compensation authority determines that such licence should be abolished the compensation authority shall make an order (in this Part of this Act referred to as an abolition order) abolishing such licence at midnight on the next following 30th day of September.

(2) If on any such hearing as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section the compensation authority determines that the licence the subject of the hearing should not be abolished the compensation authority shall make an order that such licence be not then abolished, but every such order shall be without prejudice to the institution of fresh proceedings in any subsequent year for the abolition of such licence.

(3) Every abolition order shall operate to abolish the licence the subject of the order as at and from midnight on the 30th day of September next following the date of the order, and such licence shall not be renewed for any period after that date nor shall any new licence be granted at any time after the date of such abolition order in respect of the premises or any part of the premises to which such licence was attached.

(4) On a hearing under this section by a compensation authority an officer of the Gárda Síochána and the holder of the licence to which the hearing relates and no other party shall be entitled to be heard and adduce evidence.

(5) In and by every abolition order the compensation authority shall appoint a convenient date not later than the next following 30th day of April for the sitting to fix the amount of the compensation in respect of the abolition of the licence to which the order relates.

(6) Whenever an abolition order is made the registrar to the compensation authority by whom such order was made shall forth-with publish in the Iris Oifigiúil a notice of the making of such order, containing such particulars as the Minister for Justice may direct.