Licensing Act (Ireland) 1874

As to quarter sessions certificate.

18 & 19 Vict. c. 114.

As to petty sessions certificate.

12. [Power to Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council within six months after the passing of Act by order to constitute annual licensing quarter sessions, and to appoint annual licensing petty sessions, rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 54. (S.L.R.)]

From and after the publication in the “Dublin Gazette” of such orders respectively, and the constitution and appointment thereby of annual licensing quarter sessions and of annual licensing petty sessions, the provisions following shall apply:

1. Where under the provisions of any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed, the production of a certificate of justices in quarter sessions assembled, or of a recorder of any city, town, or borough, is required previous to the grant of any license by any officer of excise, such certificate shall (save as herein-after provided) not be granted except at an annual licensing quarter sessions: Provided always, that in case any license shall, under the authority of the Public House (Ireland) Act, 1855, be transferred to any person, and in such other cases as may seem fit to such justices or recorder, a certificate may, notwithstanding the preceding provisions, be granted at any general or quarter sessions (other than the annual licensing quarter sessions), and in like manner as heretofore; but any license granted in pursuance of any such last-mentioned certificate shall only continue in force until the annual licensing quarter sessions held next after the grant of such certificate, unless at such annual licensing quarter sessions such certificate shall be confirmed, and in case such certificate shall not be then confirmed the license granted in pursuance thereof shall not be renewed.

2. Where under the provisions of this Act, or any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed, the production of a certificate by justices presiding at petty sessions, or of a divisional justice in the police district of Dublin, is required previous to the grant or transfer of any license or of an excise license or of a wholesale beer dealer's license by an officer of excise, such certificate shall not (save as herein-after provided) be granted except at an annual licensing petty sessions: Provided always, that in such cases as may seem fit to such justices sitting in petty sessions, or to such divisional justice, and in all cases in which a certificate is required from such justice or justices for the transfer of a license or of an excise license or of a wholesale beer dealer's license, a certificate may, notwithstanding the preceding provisions, be granted at any time other than that fixed for annual licensing petty sessions, and in like manner as heretofore; but any license granted in pursuance of any such certificate shall only continue in force until the annual licensing petty sessions held next after the grant of such certificate, unless at such annual petty sessions such certificate shall be confirmed, and in case such certificate shall not be then confirmed, the license or excise license or wholesale beer dealer's license granted in pursuance thereof shall not be renewed.