Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences - Duration

122: Expiry or renewal of licences

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"When and how alcohol licences expire or get renewed"

If you have a licence, it will expire at some point. The end of its currency is when your licence expires, this can be after 12 months if it's a new licence or after the last renewal period if it has been renewed before. You need to renew your licence before it expires.

If you do not apply to renew your licence before it expires, it will expire on the last day. If you do apply to renew your licence before it expires, but it has not been renewed yet, it might still expire. This happens if a decision to refuse your renewal is made before a certain time, which is called the end of the prospective renewal period.

If a decision to refuse your renewal is made, your licence will expire on the day stated under section 135(2). If no decision is made before the end of the prospective renewal period, your licence will expire then. But if your licence is renewed before the end of the prospective renewal period, the renewal will start when your old licence expires, and this is stated under section 135(1).

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121: Licence expires when new licence issued for same premises, or

"Your old alcohol licence ends when a new one is issued for the same place."

123: Application of section 122, or

"When section 122 applies to an alcohol licence that has not expired yet"

Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences: Duration

122Expiry or renewal of licences

In this section,—
end of its currency,—
1. for a licence that has been renewed before, means the close of the last day of the period for which it was last renewed:
2. for a licence that has not been renewed before, means the close of the day 12 months after the day it was issued
end of the prospective renewal period,—
1. for a licence that has been renewed before, means the close of the day 3 years after the last day of the period for which it was last renewed:
2. for a licence that has not been renewed before, means the close of the day 4 years after the day it was issued.
If no application to renew a licence has been made before the end of its currency, it expires at the end of its currency.
A licence expires as provided in subsection (4) or (5), or continues in force as provided in subsection (6), if—
an application to renew it has been made before the end of its currency; but
it has not been renewed before the end of its currency.

If a decision to refuse to renew the licence has been made before the end of the prospective renewal period, it expires on the day stated under section 135(2).
If no decision on the application to renew the licence has been made before the end of the prospective renewal period, it expires at the end of the prospective renewal period.
If a decision to renew the licence is made before the end of the prospective renewal period, its renewal takes effect (for the period stated under section 135(1)) at the end of its currency.