LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971

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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 27



27.(1) A court of summary jurisdiction may, on an application duly made by a
person who is the holder of a licence for premises of a kind mentioned in
section 3(1)(a), grant a licence (in this Act referred to as "an occasional
licence") authorising that person to sell intoxicating liquor by retail

(a)at such place, other than those premises, and

(b)during such period not exceeding six days at any one time, and

(c)between such hours,

(2) An application under this section may be made to any court of summary
jurisdiction sitting in the county [court division] in which the place for
which the occasional licence is sought is situated, or to any such court
sitting in an adjoining county [court division] for a petty sessions district
which includes that place.

(3) The procedure for applications for occasional licences is set out in
Schedule 7.

(4) The court shall not grant an occasional licence unless it is satisfied
that the sale of intoxicating liquor under the licence will be ancillary to a
function to which this subsection applies which is to be held at the place and
during the period and hours specified in the licence.

(5) The functions to which subsection (4) applies are functions of an
occasional nature which are organised by any body established for social,
charitable or benevolent purposes or for furthering the common interests of
persons associated with any trade, profession, educational or cultural
activity, game or sport.

(6) The days mentioned in subsection (1)(b) may be in the same week or
consecutive weeks, but nothing in this section shall permit an
occasional licence to authorise the sale of intoxicating liquor on any Sunday,
or on Christmas Day or Good Friday, or during any part of the period from half
past one in any morning to half past eleven in that morning.

(7) An occasional licence shall not authorise the sale of intoxicating liquor
for consumption off the place specified in the licence.

(8) If the holder of an occasional licence or any servant or agent of his
sells intoxicating liquor in contravention of subsection (7), the holder of
the licence shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding #100.

(9) Where an occasional licence has been granted in connection with a function
at any place, a constable may at any time during the period of the function
enter that place for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been any
contravention of any provision of this Act, and if any person, himself or by
his servant or agent or any other person acting with his knowledge or consent,
fails or unreasonably delays to admit a constable, knowing him to be such,
demanding to enter in pursuance of this subsection, he shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
#100.

(10) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (9) the burden of
proving that any delay in admitting was reasonable shall lie upon the
defendant.

(11) An occasional licence granted in connection with a function shall, at any
time during the period of the function when intoxicating liquor is sold or
made available for purchase at the place specified in the licence, forthwith
be produced by the person who is in charge of the sale of intoxicating liquor
there for examination by a constable at his request, and if it is not so
produced without reasonable excuse the holder of the licence and that person
shall each be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding #20.

(12) In this section "place" includes "premises".

Separation of certain licensed premises from other business premises.

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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 27