Return of Community licences delivered to DepartmentN.I.
15E.—(1) This Article applies where a Community licence is delivered to the Department in pursuance of Article 15C or 73A.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Department must, on or after the expiry of the relevant period, forward the Community licence to the licensing authority in the EEA state in respect of which it was issued and explain to them its reasons for so doing.
(3) Where the Department is satisfied that the Community licence holder has ceased to be normally resident in Northern Ireland before the expiry of the relevant period, the Department must return the Community licence to the holder.
(4) In this Article “relevant period” means—
(a)in a case where the Community licence holder appeals under Article 16 or 76 against the requirement to surrender his Community licence, the period ending on the date on which the appeal is finally determined or abandoned, and
(b)in any other case, the period of seven months beginning with the date on which the Department received the Community licence.