Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927
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PART I. Preliminary. | ||
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Definitions and application. |
1.—(1) In this Act (except in Part V thereof)—the expression “week day” means any day which is not a Sunday and is not Good Friday, Christmas Day, or Saint Patrick's Day; | |
the expression “ordinary week day” means any week day which is not a Saturday; | ||
the word “Saturday” does not include a Saturday which is Christmas Day or St. Patrick's Day; | ||
the expression “Saint Patrick's Day” does not include a Saint Patrick's Day which falls on a Sunday; | ||
the word “Sunday” does not include a Sunday which is Christmas Day; | ||
the expression “period of summer time” means a period appointed by or under the Summer Time Act, 1925 (No. 8 of 1925) to be a period of summer time; | ||
the word “town” means and includes any town having Commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 ; | ||
the word “hotel” means licensed premises structurally adapted for use and bona fide used as a hotel or a hotel and restaurant and having not less than ten apartments set apart and exclusively used for the sleeping accommodation of travellers; | ||
the word “restaurant” means licensed premises certified under this Act to be a restaurant for the purposes of this Act; | ||
the word “theatre” means a theatre or place of public entertainment licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor under section 7 of the Excise Act, 1835 ; | ||
the expression “theatre licence” means a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor granted under section 7 of the Excise Act, 1835 in respect of a theatre; | ||
the expression “licensing area” means a district court area prescribed by law for the purposes of the transaction of licensing business, and when used in relation to licensed premises means the district court area as so prescribed in which the licensed premises are situate; | ||
the expression “Justice of the District Court” when used in relation to licensed premises means the Justice of the District Court for the time being exercising jurisdiction in the licensing area in which the licensed premises are situate; | ||
the expression “annual licensing district court” means the sitting of the District Court held pursuant to rules of court in a licensing area for the hearing of applications for certificates for renewals of licences for the sale of intoxicating liquor; | ||
the expression “licensed premises” means (except in Part IV of this Act) premises in respect of which a licence for the sale by retaile of intoxicating liquor has been granted and is in force; | ||
the expression “on-licence” means a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor for consumption either on or off the premises; | ||
the expression “off-licence” means a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises; and | ||
the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Justice. | ||
(2) For the purposes of the application of this Act (except Part V thereof) to the Dublin Metropolitan area, that area shall be deemed to be a county borough, and accordingly the provisions of this Act in relation to county boroughs shall apply to the whole of the Dublin Metropolitan area, and the provisions of this Act in relation to urban county districts shall not apply to any part of the said area. |