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(1)In any case in which application is made under the principal Act to a local authority for a licence to keep a riding establishment and the local authority are not satisfied that having regard to all the circumstances they would be justified in granting such licence they may grant a provisional licence which shall come into force at the beginning of the day on which it is granted and shall remain in force for three months.
(2)A local authority may on application being made to them in that behalf before the expiration of a provisional licence extend the said period of three months for a further period not exceeding three months:
Provided that they shall not under this subsection authorise a person to keep a riding establishment by virtue of a provisional licence for more than six months in any period of one year.
(3)The following provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act shall apply and have effect in all respects as if references therein to a licence included references to a provisional licence and as if references therein to licences granted under that Act included references to provisional licences granted under this Act, that is to say, section 1(1), (2), (3), (4), (4A), (8) and (9) and sections 2, 3, 4 and 5:
Provided that in the application as aforesaid of subsection (8) of section 1 of the principal Act to the personal representatives of the holder of a provisional licence the said subsection shall be read and have effect as if for the words “one year” in each place where they occur there were substituted the words “three months”.
(4)For the purposes of this section the expression “local authority” has the same meaning as in the principal Act.
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