Where on an application under this Schedule the licensing authority refuse to register or renew the registration of a club or institute under Part III of this Act, the F1chief executive to the licensing authority shall forthwith give notice of the decision of the authority to the applicant; and, within F2twenty-one days from the date of service of that notice, the applicant may, by notice to the F1chief executive to the authority, appeal against the decision to F3the Crown Court.

As soon as practicable after receiving notice of appeal against such a decision of the licensing authority, the F1chief executive to the authority shall send the notice to F4the appropriate officer of the Crown Court together with a statement of the decision against which the appeal is brought and of the name and last-known residence or place of business of the appellant.

On receipt of the notice of appeal, F4the appropriate officer of the Crown Court shall enter the appeal and give in writing to the appellant, to the appropriate officer of police and to the licensing authority not less than seven days’ notice of the date, time and place appointed for the hearing of the appeal.

F3The Crown Court may by its order allow or dismiss the appeal and may deal with the application as if it had been made to F3the Crown Court in the first instance; and the judgment of F3the Crown Court on the appeal shall be final.

A justice shall not act in the hearing or determination of an appeal under this paragraph from any decision in which he took part.