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Part 2Licences and certificates
Licences: how to get licensed

12Certified copies of licence

  1. When a Licensing Authority issues a licence, he or she must also issue as many certified copies of the licence as may be necessary to enable the licence holder to comply with section 36(2).

  2. A certified copy need not be in the same form as a licence.

Notes
  • Section 12(1): amended, on , by section 304 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).