48Regulations as to form of licenses.
The following regulations shall be made with respect to licenses:
(1)Every license granted after the commencement of this Act shall be in such form as may from time to time be prescribed by a Secretary of State : Provided that licenses granted at any general annual licensing meeting or adjournment thereof between the twentieth of August and the end of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two shall be in the forms heretofore in use, but any conditions contained in any license so granted which are contrary to the provisions of this Act shall be of no effect:
(2)A renewal of a license may be made by an endorsement on the license, or by the issue of a copy of the old license, but in the latter case there shall be endorsed on such copy all convictions made within the previous five years which are endorsed on the old license.
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may alter the form of any license granted by them for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in such manner as they may think expedient, for the purposes of bringing such form into conformity with the law for the time being in force.