SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2LICENSING OF SEX ESTABLISHMENTS

Provisions relating to existing premises

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1

This paragraph applies to an application for the grant of a licence under this Schedule made before the appointed day.

2

A council shall not consider any application to which this paragraph applies before the appointed day.

3

A council shall not grant any application to which this paragraph applies until it has considered all such applications.

4

In considering which of several applications to which this paragraph applies should be granted a council shall give preference over other applicants to any applicant who satisfies them—

a

that he is using the premises, vehicle, vessel or stall to which the application relates as a sex establishment; and

b

that some person was using the premises, vehicle, vessel or stall as a sex establishment on 1st August 1984; and

c

that—

i

he is that person; or

ii

he is a successor of that person in the business or activity which was being carried on there on that date.