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Provisional licences.
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26.—(1) Where an application has been duly made for the grant of a licence and the Minister is not satisfied that the premises to which such application relates comply with the conditions of cleanliness and suitability of premises and (where the application is for a curing and slaughtering licence) with the conditions of suitability of slaughtering premises, the Minister may, if he so thinks fit and is satisfied that there are in such premises suitable and adequate facilities for the artificial chilling of carcases and parts thereof, grant to the applicant a provisional curing licence or a provisional curing and slaughtering licence, as the case may require.
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(2) The provisions of this Part of this Act in relation to the form, operation, recording and revocation of licences, and as to the rights, duties and obligations of licensees under such licences, shall apply to provisional licences granted under this section and to licensees under such licences, but with and subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—
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(a) every such provisional licence, if not previously revoked, shall expire at the end of twelve months from the grant thereof;
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(b) the grant of such provisional licence shall not prevent the Minister granting to the licensee thereunder, at or before the expiration thereof, a licence (in this section referred to as a permanent licence) under any section of this Part of this Act other than this section;
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(c) the grant of a permanent licence to a licensee under a provisional licence which has not expired shall operate as a revocation of such provisional licence.
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