Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1943

Transfer of publican's licence to licensed beerhouse.

31.—(1) A person who is at the one time the holder of a beerhouse licence and the holder of a publican's licence shall, if the premises to which the said licences are respectively attached are situate in the same district or adjoining districts, be entitled, on application at any sitting of the justice of the District Court in whose district are situate the premises to which the beerhouse licence is attached, to have the publican's licence transferred to the premises to which the beerhouse licence is attached, but subject to the condition that, on such transfer being made, the beerhouse licence shall not be renewed and the premises to which the publican's licence was attached before such transfer shall, for the purposes of the Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1902 , be deemed never to have been licensed.

(2) A person who is at the one time the holder of a six-day beerhouse licence and the holder of a seven-day beerhouse licence shall, on application at any sitting of the justice of the District Court in whose district are situate the premises to which the six-day beerhouse licence is attached, be entitled to have the seven-day beerhouse licence transferred to the premises to which the six-day beerhouse licence is attached, but subject to the condition that, on such transfer being made, the six-day beerhouse licence shall not be renewed and the premises to which the seven-day beerhouse licence was attached before such transfer shall, for the purposes of the Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1902 , be deemed never to have been licensed.

(3) In this section, the expressions “publican's licence” and “beerhouse licence” have the meanings given to them respectively by section 52 of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 , for the purposes of Part II of that Act, and the word “district” means a district of the District Court prescribed under section 68 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924).