Application for renewal of licence or registration
7(1)Paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 (application for renewal of licence) is amended as follows.
(2)In sub-paragraph (1) (which requires such applications to be made in January or February, subject to sub-paragraph (2)), for " in January or February in the year in which the licence is due to expire " substitute " not earlier than five or later than two months before the date on which the licence is due to expire ".
(3)In sub-paragraph (2) (which enables the licensing authority to consider a late application if the failure to apply in time was due to inadvertence)—
(a)for " after the end of February " substitute " later than is required by the last preceding sub-paragraph " ; and
(b)for " before the end of that month " substitute " in time ".
8For paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 (steps preparatory to the hearing by the licensing authority of an application for renewal of a licence) substitute—
“13(1)Not later than seven days after the date on which an application for the renewal of a licence under this Act is made, the applicant shall send a copy of the application—
(a)to the Board ;
(b)to the appropriate officer of police ;
(c)to the appropriate local authority ;
(d)to the appropriate fire authority, if that authority is not the same body as the appropriate local authority ; and
(e)to the appropriate collector of duty.
(2)Not later than fourteen days after the making of any such application, the clerk to the licensing authority shall cause notice of the making of the application to be published by means of an advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the licensing authority's area.
(3)A notice published in pursuance of the preceding sub-paragraph shall state that any person who desires to object to the renewal by the licensing authority of the licence should send to the clerk to the licensing authority, before such date (not being earlier than fourteen days after the publication of the advertisement) as may be specified in the notice, two copies of a brief statement in writing of the grounds of his objection.
(4)On or after the date so specified, but not less than seven days before the day appointed for the consideration of the application, the clerk to the licensing authority shall send notice in writing of the date, time and place of the meeting of the authority at which the application will be considered—
(a)to the applicant;
(b)to all the persons and bodies specified in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph; and
(c)if the clerk has received from any other person an objection in writing which has not been withdrawn and the address of that person is known to the clerk, to that person.
(5)With the notice sent to the applicant in accordance with the preceding sub-paragraph there shall be enclosed a copy of any objection to the renewal of the licence which has been received by the clerk to the licensing authority and which has not been withdrawn.”.
9In paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 (proceedings on an application for the renewal of a licence), in sub-paragraph (2)(b) (which relates to the right of objectors to be heard) for " paragraph 13(3) (b) " substitute " paragraph 13(5) ".
10For paragraphs 4 and 5 of Schedule 3 (which provide for the making of applications for renewal of registration and for the steps to be taken preparatory to the hearing of such applications by the licensing authority) substitute—
“4Paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to any application for renewal of the registration of a club or institute under Part II of this Act as they have effect in relation to applications for the renewal of licences under this Act, but as if in paragraph 13(1) of that Schedule the references to the appropriate local authority and the appropriate fire authority were omitted.”.