Licensing Act (Ireland) 1874

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Temporary continuance of licenses or excise licenses forfeited without disqualification of premises.

13. Where any licensed person or spirit grocer is convicted for the first time of any one of the following offences :

1. Making an internal communication between the premises of such licensed person or spirit grocer and any unlicensed premises;

2. Selling spirits without a spirit license ;

3. Any felony;

and in consequence either becomes personally disqualified or has his license forfeited, there may be made by or on behalf of the owner of the premises an application to a court of summary jurisdiction for authority to carry on the same business on the same premises until the quarter sessions or petty sessions (in which last term is included, with respect to the police district of Dublin metropolis, the court of a police magistrate) for the division, place, or district in which such premises are situate holden next after the expiration of one calendar month after such indorsement, according as the certificate, upon production of which such license or excise licence was obtained, was granted at quarter sessions or petty sessions.

Where such quarter sessions or petty sessions shall be the annual licensing quarter sessions or the annual licensing petty sessions, application may be made for a renewal of such license to some person other than the person convicted, and such renewal may be granted or refused in pursuance of the enactments relating thereto: Provided, that where such quarter sessions or petty sessions shall not be the annual licensing quarter sessions or the annual licensing petty sessions, application for a transfer of such license to some person other than the person convicted may be made and granted or refused in like manner and on the same conditions, and for the same time, as if the person convicted had removed from such premises, and the person applying for such grant was his assignee.