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PETROLEUM (CONSOLIDATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - SECT 2

Provisions as to licences.

2.(1) The local authority empowered under this Act to grant
petroleum-spirit licences shall be, as respects any... district, the council
thereof:

Provided that

Para.(i) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/341

(ii)in any harbour within the jurisdiction of a harbour authority, whether
situate or not within the jurisdiction of any local authority hereinbefore
mentioned, the harbour authority shall be the local authority for granting
petroleum-spirit licences to the exclusion of any other local authority.

(2) A petroleum-spirit licence may be granted by a local authority so as to be
in force for such time, and subject to such provisions as to renewal, as the
local authority think necessary.

(3) A local authority may attach to any petroleum-spirit licence such
conditions as they think expedient, as to the mode of storage, the nature and
situation of the premises in which, and the nature of the goods with which,
petroleum-spirit is to be stored, the facilities for the testing of
petroleum-spirit from time to time, and generally as to the safe-keeping of
petroleum-spirit.

(4) Where conditions to be observed by persons employed are attached to any
petroleum-spirit licence, the occupier of the premises to which the licence
relates shall cause to be kept posted on the premises, in such form and in
such position as to be easily read by the persons employed on the premises, a
notice setting out those conditions, and

(a)if the occupier of any premises fails to comply with the foregoing
requirements of this sub-section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding [#20]; and

(b)if any person pulls down, .... any notice posted in accordance with the
requirements of this sub-section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding [#20]; and

(c)if any person employed contravenes any condition of which notice has been
given in accordance with the requirements of this sub-section, he shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [#20].

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