Part I The General Licensing System
Miscellaneous
36 Proof of justices’ licence and provisions as to forgery thereof.
(1)
Any document purporting to be a justices’ licence and—
(a)
to be signed by the majority of the justices present when the licence was granted, or
(b)
to be sealed or stamped with an official seal or stamp affixed or impressed under the authority of the licensing justices and to contain a certificate signed by the clerk to the licensing justices verifying that authority,
shall be received in evidence.
(2)
Any document purporting to be a copy of a justices’ licence certified under the hand of the clerk to the licensing justices by whom the licence was granted to be a true copy shall be received in evidence—
(a)
by licensing justices on an application for the renewal, transfer or removal of the licence, and
(b)
by justices of the peace on an application for a protection order,
if the justices are satisfied by evidence that the original has been lost or unlawfully withheld.
(3)
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(4)
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37 Power to extend existing on-licence to additional types of liquor.
(1)
Subject to sections 112(4) and 123(3) of this Act, on an application by the holder of a justices’ on-licence F3to which this section applies, or on the renewal or transfer of F4such a licence and at the request of the person applying for the renewal or transfer, the licensing justices, if satisfied that the application or request is made with the consent of the registered owner, shall vary the licence so as to add to the descriptions of intoxicating liquor authorised to be sold on the licensed premises.
(2)
On the variation of a licence under this section the licensing justices shall have the like power to attach conditions as they would have if they were granting the licence (with the variation) as a new justices’ on-licence, and any conditions attached may be in addition to or in substitution for any conditions previously attached to the licence.
F5(3)
This section applies to any justices’ on-licence granted by way of renewal from time to time of a licence in force on or before 3rd August 1961, no account being taken of any transfer or removal.