Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. VII excluded by Licensing (Amendment) Act 1967 (c. 51, SIF 68A:1), s. 1
C2References to the administrative county of London to be construed as references to the metropolis: Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42, SIF 82), Sch. 3, para. 31(5); references to local planning authorities to be construed as references to district planning authorities only: Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70, SIF 81:1), s. 204(2)
(1)Where proposals of a licensing planning committee that have been confirmed provide for a planning removal, and application is made to the licensing justices for the licensing district in which the premises to which it is intended to make the removal are situated, the justices shall grant the removal if they are satisfied that—
(a)the premises are fit and convenient for the purpose;
(b)the applicant is not disqualified by this or any other Act for holding a justices’ licence and is in all other respects a fit and proper person to hold a justices’ licence; and
(c)any conditions specified in the proposals as confirmed have been complied with.
(2)If the application is for the provisional grant of a planning removal, any plans submitted to the licensing justices shall be treated for the purposes of section 6 of this Act as plans deposited under this Act, but subsections (5) and (6) of that section shall not apply, and if the provisional grant is made it shall not be declared final unless the licensing justices are satisfied, in addition to the matters mentioned in subsection (4) of that section, that any conditions specified in the proposals as confirmed have been complied with.
(3)Any such application to licensing justices as is mentioned in the preceding provisions of this section, and any application for a provisional grant of a planning removal to be declared final may be made or dealt with at any meeting of the licensing justices specially called for the purpose as well as at licensing sessions.
(4)Sections 21 to 25 of this Act shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to a decision of licensing justices refusing to grant a planning removal (including a refusal to make a provisional grant) as they apply to a decision refusing a special removal.