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Preservation of licences of destroyed premises.
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15.—(1) This section applies to every licence of any description for the sale of intoxicating liquor by retail (whether for consumption on or off the premises) on premises—
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(a) which are situate outside the City of Dublin, and
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(b) which were destroyed or damaged during the period beginning on the 1st day of April, 1922, and ending on the 12th day of May, 1923, and
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(c) the destruction or damage of which occurred during the course of and as an incident in the conflict between the armed forces of the Provisional Government of Ireland or of the Government of Saorstát Eireann and persons offering armed resistance to those forces, and
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(d) in which the business of selling intoxicating liquor has been suspended on account of such destruction or damage.
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(2) Every licence to which this section applies shall (for the purposes of renewal and of any certificates required for renewal but for no other purpose) be deemed to continue in force up to the time of the completion of the rebuilding or restoration of the licensed premises, and to be vested in the person legally entitled to the possession of such premises.
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(3) Until the completion of the rebuilding or restoration of the licensed premises, it shall be competent for the person in whom a licence to which this section applies is vested to apply for any justice's certificate required for renewal, and for the court to consider such application, although the same may not be made to the annual licensing district court.
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(4) Until the completion of the rebuilding or restoration of the licensed premises, any certificate as to the conduct of the business required for the purpose of renewal of a licence to which this section applies shall be a certificate in respect of the conduct of the business during the period between the date of the last renewal prior to the destruction or damage of the licensed premises and the date of such destruction or damage.
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