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Licences taken out by brewers and distillers, and by publicans, as retailers of beer, spirits, or foreign wine, or sweets or made wines, or mead or metheglin, shall expire on the 10th of October in each year, and all other licences on the 5th of July; licences to be renewed yearly, and notice for renewal given by the trader twenty-one days at least before the expiration of his current licence; new licence, if regularly renewed, to bear date from the expiration of the former licence, if granted afterwards; or otherwise to bear date from date of application.
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16. All excise licences taken out in the United Kingdom by any brewer or brewers of beer, or by any distiller or maker, distillers or makers of low wines or spirits, or by any person or persons who shall be duly authorized by justices of the peace to keep a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house, and who shall take out a licence for selling beer, cyder, or perry by retail, to be drank or consumed in the house or premises, or for selling spirits or foreign wine, or sweets or made wines, or mead or metheglin, by retail, under or by virtue of this Act, or any other law or laws of excise (except any excise licence or licences theretofore granted, and which shall be then in force and unexpired), shall continue and be in force from the day of the date of such licences respectively, until the tenth day of October following, on which day in each year all such excise licences (except as aforesaid) shall expire; and all other excise licences throughout the United Kingdom, except those above specified, and except as above excepted, shall continue and be in force from the day of the date of such licences respectively, until the fifth day of July following, on which day in each year all such licences as last aforesaid (except as aforesaid) shall expire; and all and every person or persons who shall have taken out any such licence as aforesaid, and who shall wish or intend to continue the trade or business for which such licence was granted for any longer space of time, shall take out a fresh licence for the year following, to expire on one of such days as hereinbefore mentioned, according to the nature of the licence by him, her, or them taken out, and shall so renew the same from year to year, so long as he, she, or they shall continue such trade or business and shall pay in each and every such case the duty thereupon imposed at such time and place as herein-before mentioned; and every such person or persons shall in every such case as aforesaid give notice in writing, at least twenty-one days before the expiration of the current licence to him, her, or them before granted, of such his, her, or their intention to continue the trade or business for which such licence was before granted, to the collector or supervisor, or other person or persons authorized to grant licences for the district or place at which such trade or business shall be carried on; and in cases where the excise licence is so renewed as aforesaid, and such notice as aforesaid shall have been given, the new licence shall bear date from the day or date of the expiration of the current licences before granted; but in case where such notice shall not have been given as aforesaid, and in ail other cases than as aforesaid, the licence shall bear date from the day of the date of the application made for such licence, although and notwithstanding any such licence may be delivered at any day subsequent to the date of such application.
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