Licensing Act 1964

PART II Licensing Sessions

7 The licensing sessions of each twelve months beginning with February shall be held at as nearly regular intervals as may be, and the general annual licensing meeting shall be held in the first fortnight of February.

8 The licensing justices shall appoint the day, time and place for holding the licensing sessions of each twelve months at a meeting held not less than twenty-one days before the day appointed for the general annual licensing meeting or, in the case of the transfer sessions, either at that meeting or at the general annual licensing meeting.

9 The licensing justices may for the general annual licensing meeting appoint different days for different parts of the licensing district, and, if they do, may appoint different places also.

10 A licensing sessions may, for the purpose of dealing with business not disposed of, be from time to time continued by adjournment beyond the day appointed for the holding of the sessions ; but no new application may be made at any adjourned sessions and references in this Act or any other enactment (in whatever terms) to the day or first day of a licensing sessions and to the conclusion of a licensing sessions shall be taken as referring to the day appointed for holding the sessions and to the conclusion of the proceedings on that day (and, in the case of a general annual licensing meeting for which different days are appointed for different parts of the licensing district, as having reference to the one appointed for the relevant part of the district).

11 When licensing justices have appointed the time and place for the holding of any licensing sessions, the clerk shall advertise notice of it in a newspaper circulating in the licensing district, and shall send notice of it—

(a) to every member of the licensing committee;

(b) to every holder of a justices' licence or canteen licence in the licensing district;

(c) to every person who gives or has previously given the clerk notice of his intention to apply for such a licence at those sessions;

(d) to the chief officer of police for the police area or each of the police areas in which the licensing district or any part of it is situated.