Licensing Act 1964 (repealed)

1 E+W A person proposing to apply at a licensing sessions for the grant of a new justices’ licence, or for the ordinary or special removal or the transfer of a justices’ licence, shall give the following notices:—

(a) not less than twenty-one days before the day of the licensing sessions he shall give notice in writing to the [F1 chief executive] to the licensing justices, the chief officer of police and the proper local authority;

(b) in the case of a transfer he shall give the like notice to the holder of the licence (if any), and in the case of a removal he shall give the like notice to the registered owner of the premises from which it is sought to remove the licence and the holder of the licence (if any) unless he is also the applicant;

(c) except in the case of a transfer, he shall—

(i) not more than twenty-eight days before the day of the licensing sessions display notice of the application for a period of seven days in a place where it can conveniently be read by the public on or near the premises to be licensed (or, in the case of an application for a provisional grant, on or near the proposed site of those premises); and

(ii) not more than twenty-eight days nor less than fourteen days before the day of the licensing sessions (and, if the licensing justices so require, on some day or days outside that period but within such other period as they may require) advertise notice of the application in a newspaper circulating in the place where the premises to be licensed are situated.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 1(a) substituted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 90, Sch. 13 paras. 36, 51(a) (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with Sch. 2 para. 2)