Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1960

Extension of power of local authority in relation to the issue of certificates under section 6 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1953.

41.—(1) A local authority may, if they think fit and with the consent of the holder thereof, cancel a certificate issued by them under section 6 (which provides for the issue by local authorities of certificates approving of sites for licensed premises in substitution for licensed premises demolished by them) of the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1953 , and may issue under the section another certificate declaring that a site acquired by them, other than the site declared in the cancelled certificate to be approved by them, is approved by them as a site for licensed premises in substitution for the licensed premises which the cancelled certificate declared had been or were to be demolished.

(2) A certificate under the said section 6 may not be cancelled if an application under section 7 or section 8 (which sections provide for the licensing of premises on sites declared by certificates under the said section 6 to be approved by local authorities) of the aforesaid Act grounded on the certificate has been granted.

(3) A certificate under the said section 6 which is cancelled under this section shall be deemed never to have been issued.