Magistrates' Courts (Licensing) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997

Documents to be lodged with applications or produced to the court

5.—(1) Where application is made for the renewal of a licence for an hotel or a guest-house a current certificate, issued by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, stating that the premises are those of an establishment allocated by a certificate under Article 13 of the Tourism (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1) to the statutory category of hotel or guest-house, as the case may be, shall be lodged with a notice of application.

(2) Where application is made for the renewal of a licence for a conference centre a copy of the current certificate, issued by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, stating that the said premises comply with Article 2(2) shall be lodged with the notice of application.

(3) Evidence for the purposes of Article 2(5) that a licence was granted before 31st July 1902 or under Article 4(1) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(2) or under Article 12(1) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 or Article 11(1) of the Order in lieu of such a licence may be in the form of a certified extract from the register of licences.

(4) Where application is made:—

(a) for the renewal of a licence for an hotel, restaurant, conference centre, higher education institute or premises of the kind mentioned in Article 5(1)(a) and either an application is to be made or an order is in force for the premises under Article 44;

(b) for an order under Article 44 other than on renewal; or

(c) for the renewal of a licence for any place of entertainment,

any licence required for those premises by a council under Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985(3) shall be produced to the court.

(1)

S.I. 1992/235 (N.I. 3)

(2)

S.I. 1978/1044 (N.I. 14)

(3)

S.I. 1985/1208 (N.I. 15)