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

Register of licences

17.—(1) Where premises were licensed for which plans were deposited in the office of the chief clerk and have been sent to the clerk of petty sessions or plans were in the possession of the clerk of petty sessions before 3rd May 1971(1), those plans should be indexed as relating to the register and kept as plans duly sent to such clerk under Article 34(3).

(2) Where by reason of any change in the boundaries of the petty sessions district or otherwise, premises should be registered in the register of another district, a certified copy of the relevant entry in the register and any plans relating thereto shall be sent by the clerk for the first-mentioned district to that of the other for inclusion in the register and he shall so inform the person holding the licence for the premises.

(3) In this rule the expression “chief clerk” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980(2).

(1)

The commencement date of section 34(3) of the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 (c. 13 (N.I.))

(2)

S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3)