LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 25 Temporary continuance of business on death, bankruptcy etc.

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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 25

Temporary continuance of business on death, bankruptcy etc.

25.(1) Where at any time

(a)the holder of a licence dies or is adjudged bankrupt, or his business
becomes vested in the official assignee (whether before or after his death)
without his being so adjudged or becomes vested in a trustee under a deed of
arrangement with his creditors, or a receiver of his property or a committee
or guardian is appointed with power to manage the business carried on under
the licence; or

(b)in the case of a body corporate which is the holder of a licence, a
winding-up is commenced or a receiver is appointed as aforesaid,

(2) Where the holder of a licence dies and he has no personal representative
or his personal representative is unwilling or unable to act, the licence
shall, unless suspended, continue in force for the benefit of any person
entitled in consequence of his death to a beneficial interest in the business
until

(a)the expiration of a period of two months from the date of his death; or

(b)a protection order is made; or

(c)subsection (1) becomes applicable by reason of the appointment of a
personal representative,

(3) The authority conferred on any person by virtue of subsection (1) or (2)
to carry on a business in licensed premises shall be suspended on the
expiration of the period of two weeks from the date when he commenced to carry
on the business unless during that period he has served notice that he is
carrying on the business by virtue of that subsection (and, if he is carrying
it on by virtue of subsection (1), the capacity in which he is doing so) upon

(a)the clerk of petty sessions for the petty sessions district; and

(b)the divisional commander of the police division,

Temporary continuance of business in other premises.

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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 25