Licensing Act 1872

40 Regulations as to new licenses and transfer of licenses.

Every person intending to apply for a new license, or to apply for the transfer of a license, shall publish notice of such application as follows; that is to say,

(1) In the case of a new license, he shall cause notice thereof to be given and to be affixed and maintained in manner directed by section seven of "The Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869," and any enactment amending the same, and shall advertise such notice in some paper circulating in the place in which the premises to which the notice relates are situate, on some day not more than four and not less than two weeks before the proposed application, and on such day or days, if any, as may be from time to time fixed by the licensing justices :

(2) In the case of the transfer of a license he shall, fourteen days prior to one of the special sessions appointed by the justices for granting transfers of such licenses, serve a notice of his intention to transfer the same upon one of the overseers of the parish, township, or place in which the premises in respect of which his application is to be made are situate, and on the superintendent of police of the district. This notice shall be signed by the applicant or by his authorised agent, and shall set forth the name of the person to whom it is intended that such license shall be transferred, together with the place of his residence, and his trade or calling during the six months preceding the time of serving such notice :

(3) Any license may be authenticated in manner in which a certificate may be authenticated in pursuance of sub-section two of section four of " The Wine and Beerhouse Act Amendment Act, 1870," and the provisions of the said sub-section shall apply accordingly.

Provided that, notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, notices in respect of all applications for new licenses to be granted at any general annual licensing meeting or adjournment thereof held between the twentieth of August and the end of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two shall be given as if this Act had not passed. The provisions of this section as to notices shall extend to all cases where, under the Intoxicating Liquors Act, 1828, notices are required to be served in a like form to or in the same manner as notices for new licenses.