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.