Licensing Act 1902

14 Date of annual licensing meeting

(1) The general annual licensing meeting in every licensing district shall be held within the first fourteen days of the month of February in each year, and every adjournment thereof shall be held within one month of the date of the general annual licensing meeting.

(2) The general annual licensing meeting which would, but for this Act, be held between the twentieth day of August and the fourteenth day of September one thousand nine hundred and two shall not be held.

(3) In every licensing district where the general annual licensing meeting would, but for this Act, be held between the twentieth day of August and the fourteenth day of September, inclusive, all licences within the meaning of the Licensing Acts, 1828 to 1886, and all billiard licences granted by the justices of the peace acting in and for any such district which are in force on the tenth day of October one thousand nine hundred and two, shall, notwithstanding anything in such licences or in the Licensing Acts, 1828 to 1886, to the contrary, upon production of such licence to the clerk of the licensing justices and upon payment to him of half of the fees which would have been payable if that licence had been renewed at a general annual licensing meeting held in August or September one thousand nine hundred and two, be and remain in force until the fifth day of April nineteen hundred and three, unless previously forfeited, or unless the person to whom or the premises in respect of which the licence was granted is or become disqualified. Upon payment of the said fees, the clerk to the licensing justices shall endorse a note of the payment on the licence.

(4) The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may renew any excise licence granted to any person holding a licence granted by the justices of the peace acting in and for any such licensing district which was in force on the tenth day of October one thousand nine hundred and two, upon production of that licence, in the same manner as if that licence had been renewed at a general annual licensing meeting held in August or September nineteen hundred and two.

(5) The justices of the peace acting in and for any such licensing district shall, on some day within the month of October nineteen hundred and two, hold a special meeting, and shall at that meeting appoint not less than two nor more than four special sessions to he holden in the division during the period between the date of that meeting and the first day of February nineteen hundred and three at periods as near as may be equally distant, and at any such special sessions the justices shall have the same powers and jurisdiction as if the said days had been appointed at a general annual licensing meeting in accordance with the provisions of section four of the [9 Geo. 4. c. 61.] Alehouse Act, 1828, and the Licensing Acts, 1828 to 1886, shall have effect accordingly, and any licence granted at any such special sessions shall be in force until the fifth day of April one thousand nine hundred and three, and no longer.

(6) This section shall not affect the power of the licensing justices under section eleven of the [33 & 34 Vict. c. 29.] Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1870, to postpone to an adjourned meeting (whether held within one month of the date of the annual meeting or not) the consideration of an application for the grant or renewal of a licence, and the said section shall apply to all licences in like manner as it applies to licences under the Wine and Beerhouse Acts.

(7) This section shall come into operation on the passing of this Act.