Part IE+W The General Licensing System

Grant of justices’ licenceE+W

3 Grant of justices’ licence.E+W

(1)Licensing justices may grant a justices’ licence to any such person, not disqualified under this or any other Act for holding a justices’ licence, as they think fit and proper.

(2)A justices’ licence may be granted as a new licence or by way of renewal, transfer or, subject to section 93(4) of this Act, removal.

(3)In this Act—

(a)renewing a justices’ licence means granting a justices’ licence for any premises to the holder of a similar licence in force for those premises;

(b)removing a justices’ licence means taking it from the premises for which it was granted and granting it for other premises;

(c)transferring a justices’ licence means granting it for any premises to a person in substitution for another person who holds or has held a licence for those premises.

(4)Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with regard to the procedure to be followed in relation to applications for the grant of a justices’ licence.