Street and House To House Collections Act, 1962

Application for collection permits.

5.—(1) The Chief Superintendent for any locality may, on the application of any person who proposes to hold a collection in that locality, grant a collection permit to that person authorising him to hold a collection in that locality.

(2) An application for a collection permit under this section shall be in writing in the prescribed form and shall give such particulars as may be required by the prescribed form.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, an application for a collection permit under this section shall be made—

(a) not more than six months, and

(b) not less than fourteen days,

before the day or the first of the days on which the collection to which the application relates is proposed to be held.

(4) Where, in the opinion of the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, the circumstances of the case so warrant, an application under this section for a collection permit that is made less than fourteen days before the day or the first of the days on which the collection to which the application relates is proposed to be held may be granted.