Licensing Act 1964

38 Rules

The Secretary of State may make rules for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act about the renewal, transfer or removal of old on-licences and the payment of compensation for not renewing, transferring or removing such licences and about the attachment of conditions to new justices' on-licences, and may by those rules among other things—

(a) provide for the provisional renewal, transfer or removal of old on-licences which are referred by the licensing justices to the compensation authority under section 13 of this Act, and for consultation between the compensation authority and the licensing justices on the reports of the justices thereon, and for the time and manner of the consideration of those reports and for the time and manner of the payment of compensation, and

(b) provide for the manner in which the compensation authority may borrow on the security of the compensation fund, and

(c) provide for the enforcement of any security given for money borrowed by the compensation authority, and for the time, not exceeding fifteen years, within which money borrowed is to be repaid, and

(d) regulate the management and application of the compensation fund and the audit of the accounts of the compensation authority, and

(e) provide for the constitution, where requisite, of committees of quarter sessions as standing committees, and for the employment of officers for the purposes of the provisions of this Act authorising the reference to the compensation authority of the question of the renewal, transfer or removal of old on-licences and the payment of compensation on refusal to renew, transfer or remove such licences, and authorising the attachment of conditions to new justices' licences, and

(f) regulate the procedure of the compensation authority on the consideration of the reports of licensing justices under the said section 13 and on any hearing under this Act for the purpose of determining whether to renew, transfer or remove an old on-licence or the amount or division of the compensation payable on refusal to renew, transfer or remove, and

(g) provide for the authentication of any documents on behalf of compensation authorities.