Magistrates' Courts (Licensing) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997

Part V Occasional Licences

Applications for the grant of an occasional licence

8.—(1) Notice of application for the grant of an occasional licence, in accordance with Article 30 and paragraphs 2 and 4 of Schedule 7, shall be in Form 10.

(2) An occasional licence shall be in Form 11.

(3) The applicant for an occasional licence shall attach to the notice of application and to the copies thereof to be served on the sub-divisional commander and the district council a written statement containing the particulars referred to in paragraph (4) made by the body organising the function to which the application relates.

(4) The written statement referred to in paragraph (3) shall be signed by an officer of the body and shall set out the names and purposes of the body, the nature of the function, the premises on which and the times during which the function is to be held. It shall also state the names and addresses of each of the persons to be in personal charge of running the function.

(5) A caution such as is referred to in paragraph (3) of Schedule 7 shall be in Form 12 and the cautioner shall, in addition to complying with that paragraph, serve a copy of the caution on the person to whom the licence was granted.

(6) The sub-divisional commander, the district council or a cautioner who intends to appear at the hearing and to object to the grant of an occasional licence shall not later than 5 days before the date fixed for hearing serve notice of his intention to object and his grounds for so doing upon the applicant and upon the clerk of petty sessions. The said notice shall be in Form 13.

(7) Where the sub-divisional commander does not object to the grant of a licence he may so state at the foot of the copy of the notice of the application which he receives and may cause the said copy of the notice to be delivered to the clerk of petty sessions not later than the day before the court sitting at which the application is made.