Part II The General Licensing System
13 Consideration of applications.
1
A licensing board shall not at any meeting hear the cases of applicants for new licences until all the other cases have been disposed of:
Provided that where more than one application for a licence has been made in respect of any premises, the licensing board may hear and consider such applications together.
2
Where an applicant for the grant of a licence or an objector thereto—
a
has, through inadvertence or misadventure, failed to comply with any of the preliminary requirements of this Act; or
b
having duly lodged his application or objection, has died before the meeting of the board at which such application or objection was to have been heard;
the board may, if it thinks fit, and upon such terms as the board thinks proper, postpone the consideration of the application or objection to an adjourned meeting.
3
At such adjourned meeting the licensing board may, if it is satisfied that the terms specified by the board have been complied with—
a
proceed to grant the licence to the applicant or, as the case may be, to his executors, representatives or disponees (being possessed of the premises in respect of which the application has been made);
b
proceed to consider the objection, whether on the part of the objector or, in the case of a deceased objector, on the part of his representatives; as if the preliminary requirements of this Act had been complied with.