Licensing (Ireland) Act 1855

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: 1855 c. 62
• Year: 1855

Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Decimo Octavo & Decimo Nono. An Act to amend an Act of the Eighteenth Year of Her Majesty, to amend the Laws for the better Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons and for the Suppression of illicit Distillation inIreland .

(18 & 19 Vict.) C A P. LXII.

[23d July 1855]

'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-nine, entitled Ireland, and it is expedient to amend the same:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I Justices refusing Certificate for Renewal of Licence to sell Beer, &c. to make Entry of Order as required by 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 68.

I. If any Person shall apply for and be refused the Certificate in the said Act mentioned, to entitle such Person to obtain a Renewal of a Licence to sell Beer, Cider, or Spirituous Liquors inIreland , the Justices at Petty Sessions, or the Divisional Justices, as the Case may be, shall, in the event of thereupon refusing such Application, make an Order accordingly, and cause an Entry thereof to be made by the Clerk, together with the Grounds of Refusal, in like Manner as the Justices assembled at Quarter Sessions are required to do by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Sale of Wine, Spirits, Beer, and Cider by Retail in Ireland.

II Persons aggrieved may appeal to Quarter Sessions.

II. In case any Person shall feel aggrieved by such Order of Refusal it shall be lawful for such Person to appeal against the same to the Quarter Sessions of the Division within which such Person shall reside, or if in theDublin Metropolitan Police District to the Recorder of the City of Dublin at the next Quarter Sessions after such Order, but in case there shall not be Fifteen clear Days between the making of the Order and such next Quarter Sessions, then to the Quarter Sessions next following in such Division or City, as the Case may be; and in such Appeal the Party opposing such Application shall be Respondent, and no...