Public Dance Halls Act, 1935

Publication of notice of application for public dancing licence.

3.—(1) No application to the District Court for the grant of a public dancing licence (other than a public dancing licence for a defined period not exceeding one month) shall be made or entertained unless the person making such application has, at least one month before the hearing of such application, published a notice of his intention to make such application in a newspaper circulating in the district in which is situate the place to which such application relates.

(2) Every person applying to the District Court for the grant of a public dancing licence shall—

(a) in the case of an application for a public dancing licence for a defined period not exceeding one month, give to the Superintendent of the Gárda Síochána within whose district is situate the place to which such application relates at least forty-eight hours' notice in writing of such application, and

(b) in every other case, give at least one month's notice in writing of such application to the Superintendent of the Gárda Síochána within whose district, and to the local authority within whose functional area, is situate the place to which such application relates.