Part I The General Licensing System
Duration of Licences
26 Duration of licences.
(1)
Subject to the following provisions of this section and to sections 27, 133(3) and 142(3) of this Act, a justices’ licence—
F1(a)
if granted before 5th January 1989, shall be granted to have effect from the time of the grant until 4th April 1989;
(b)
if granted after 4th January and before 5th April 1989, shall be granted to have effect from the time of the grant until 4th April 1992; and
(c)
if granted after 4th April 1989, shall be granted to have effect from the time of the grant until the expiry of the current licensing period or, if granted in the last three months of that period, until the end of the next licensing period;
but shall be superseded on the coming into force of a licence granted by way of renewal, transfer or removal of it.
(2)
A justices’ licence granted by way of transfer or removal may be granted to have effect from a time specified in the grant (not being earlier, where it is granted before the coming into force of the licence transferred or removed, than the time of the coming into force of that licence).
(3)
In the case of a licence granted provisionally, subsection (1) of this section shall apply as if the licence were granted at the time when it is declared final, but a transfer of such a licence may be granted so as to have effect for the purpose of superseding that licence from a date before it is declared final, and, if so granted, shall as regards its duration and coming into force be subject to the same provisions as if it were the licence transferred.
(4)
Where on the renewal or transfer of a licence the licensing justices attach new conditions (whether in addition to or in substitution for any conditions previously attached) the justices may, on such terms as they think just, suspend the operation of those conditions in whole or in part pending the determination of any appeal against the decision to attach them or pending the consideration of the question of bringing such an appeal.
F2(5)
In this Act “licensing period” means a period of three years beginning with 5th April 1989 or any triennial of that date.