LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 3 Premises for which licences may be granted.

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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 3

Premises for which licences may be granted.

3.(1) Without prejudice to section 79, the premises in which the sale of
intoxicating liquor is authorised by a licence shall be premises of one of the
following kinds

(a)premises in which the only or principal business carried on is the business
of selling intoxicating liquor by retail for consumption either in or off the
premises;

(b)premises in which the only or principal business carried on is the business
of selling intoxicating liquor by retail for consumption off the premises;

(c)an hotel;

(d)a restaurant;

(e)a place of public entertainment;

(f)a refreshment room in public transport premises;

(g)a seamen's canteen.

(2) Premises shall not cease to be premises of a kind mentioned in subsection
(1)(a) by reason only of the fact that at particular times or on particular
occasions the principal business carried on is the business of selling meals
or refreshments.

(3) Subject to subsection (5), a licence shall not authorise the sale of
intoxicating liquor in premises of any kind mentioned in subsection (1)(c) to
(g),

(a) unless

(i)there is being carried on in those premises a business of the type normally
carried on in premises of that kind; and

(ii)the sale of intoxicating liquor is ancillary to that business;

(b)for consumption off the premises.

(4) A licence for premises other than an hotel shall be authority for the sale
of intoxicating liquor only in the part or parts of the premises delineated in
plans kept under section 34(2) by the clerk of petty sessions for the petty
sessions district in which the premises are situated as the part or parts of
the premises in which such liquor is permitted to be sold.

(5) In relation to premises which are an hotel

(a)paragraph (a) of subsection (3) shall not apply, where a note such as is
mentioned in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 11 has been made on the licence and
recorded in the register of licences in respect of the premises;

(b)paragraph (b) of subsection (3) shall not prohibit or restrict the sale of
intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises, where

(i)the purchaser is a resident or diner in the premises, or

(ii)a note such as is mentioned in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 11 has been made
on the licence and recorded in the register of licences in respect of the
premises.

Applications for the grant of licences.

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LICENSING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 3