Licensing Act, 1872

Licenses may be removed from one part of a district to another, &c

50. Licenses may be removed from one part of a licensing district to another part of the same district, or from one licensing district to another licensing district within the same county, in manner following :

The application for an order sanctioning removal shall be made by the person desiring to be the holder of the license when removed, and shall be made at a general annual licensing meeting, or any adjournment thereof, to the justices authorised to grant new licenses in the licensing district in which the premises are situated to which the license is to be removed.

Notice of the intended application shall be given in the same manner as notice is given of an application for the grant of a new license.

A copy of the notice shall be personally served upon or sent by registered letter to the owner of the premises from which the license is to be removed, and the holder of the license, unless he is also the applicant.

The justices to whom the application is made shall not make an order sanctioning such removal unless they are satisfied that no objection to such removal is made by the owner of the premises to which the license is attached, or by the holder of the license or by any other person whom such Justices shall determine to have a right to object to the removal.

Subject as aforesaid, such justices shall have the same power to make an order sanctioning such removal as they have to grant new licences: but no such order shall be valid unless confirmed by the confirming authority of the licensing district.

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