Licensing Act 1964

SCHEDULE 12 E+W Applications for Grant and Transfer of Canteen Licences

Applications for grant of licences E+W

1 (1) A person proposing to apply for the grant of a canteen licence shall— E+W

(a) not less than twenty-one days before the hearing of the application, give notice in writing of the application to the [F1 chief executive]to the licensing justices and the chief officer of police, and serve both of them with a copy of—

(i) the certificate of the Minister of Transport; and

(ii) the draft rules which it is proposed to make as respects the persons entitled to use the canteen; and

(iii) a plan of the canteen and particulars of the means of access to the canteen and of the sanitary accommodation for persons using the canteen;

(b) not more than twenty-eight days before the hearing of the application, cause notice of the application to be kept affixed, between ten in the morning and five in the afternoon on two consecutive Sundays, to a conspicuous part of the premises comprising the canteen;

(c) not more than twenty-eight days nor less than fourteen days before the hearing of the application (and, if the licensing justices so require, on some day or days outside that period but within such other period as they may require) advertise notice of the application in a newspaper circulating in the area where the canteen is situated.

(2) In the case of an application for the grant of a provisional licence—

(a) the references in paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph to the canteen shall be taken as references to the proposed canteen after the construction or conversion has been carried out; and

(b) the notice to be affixed in pursuance of paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph shall be affixed to the premises on the land where the canteen is to be.

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 Words in Sch. 12 para. 1(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 90, Sch. 13 paras. 36, 55 (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with Sch. 2 para. 2)

2 A notice under paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall state the kind of retailer’s on-licence which is desired, the situation of the canteen and, except in the case of an application for a provisional licence, the name and address of the person who is to be the holder of the licence. E+W

Applications for transfers and confirmation of transfers E+W

3 A person proposing to apply to the licensing justices for the transfer or confirmation of the transfer of a canteen licence shall, not less than fourteen days before the hearing of the application, give notice in writing to the chief officer of police and the [F2 chief executive] to the licensing justices. E+W

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Amendments (Textual)

F2 Words in Sch. 12 para. 3 substituted (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 90, Sch. 13 paras. 36, 55; S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with Sch. 2 para. 2)

4 A person proposing to apply to justices of the peace for the transfer of a canteen licence shall, not less than seven days before the hearing of the application, give notice in writing to the chief officer of police. E+W

5 A notice under paragraph 3 or paragraph 4 of this Schedule shall state the name and address of the person to whom the licence is proposed to be transferred and his trade or calling during the six months preceding the giving of the notice. E+W

General E+W

6 Where an applicant for the grant of a canteen licence or for the transfer or confirmation of the transfer of such a licence has, through inadvertence or misadventure, failed to comply with the requirements of the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule, the justices may, upon such terms as they think fit, postpone consideration of his application; and, if on the postponed consideration they are satisfied that any terms so imposed have been complied with, they may deal with the application as if the applicant had complied with the requirements of this Schedule. E+W