57Notification of application to chief constable and Licensing Standards Officer
(1)Where a Licensing Board receives an occasional licence application, the Board must give notice of it, together with a copy of the application, to—
(a)the appropriate chief constable, and
(b)any Licensing Standards Officer for the area in which the subject premises are situated.
(2)If the chief constable considers that it is necessary for the purposes of the crime prevention objective that the application be refused, the chief constable may, by notice to the Licensing Board given within 21 days of the date of receipt of the notice under subsection (1), make a recommendation to that effect.
(3)A Licensing Standards Officer may, within 21 days of receipt of a notice under subsection (1)(b), prepare and submit to the Licensing Board a report setting out the Officer’s comments on the application.