Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Functions of Minister of Transport under Pt. X now exercisable by Secretary of State concurrently with Board of Trade: S.I. 1965/145, art. 2, Sch. 1, and 1970/1537, art. 2(1)(a)
(1)The licensing justices shall not refuse to grant a canteen licence except under subsection (2) of this section or on one or more of the following grounds, that is to say—
(a)that the applicant is disqualified by this or any other Act for holding a justices’ licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a canteen licence; or
(b)that the premises are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen; or
(c)in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen, on the ground specified in the objection; or
(d)that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the intoxicating liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained,
but nothing in this subsection shall prevent the licensing justices from specifying in a canteen licence [F1as the description or descriptions of intoxicating liquor authorised to be sold a description or descriptions other than that or those requested by the applicant.]
(2)Before application is made for the grant of a canteen licence draft rules as to the persons entitled to use the canteen shall be prepared for submission with the application and the licensing justices shall refuse to grant the licence unless the body providing the canteen undertake to make rules for the canteen in the form of the draft, with the modifications, if any, required by the licensing justices, and not to vary those rules without their consent.
(3)A canteen licence shall provide that at all times at which intoxicating liquor is sold food and beverages other than those of an intoxicating character shall also be provided for sale.
(4)An applicant for the grant of a canteen licence shall give the notices and serve the documents required in that behalf by Schedule 12 to this Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Finance Act 1967 (c. 54, SIF 68A:1), Sch. 7 para. 7