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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: special licences - Applications for special licences

144: Licensing committee may refuse special licence of own motion

You could also call this:

"The committee can say no to a special alcohol licence on their own."

The licensing committee can refuse to give you a special licence on their own. They can do this after thinking about things mentioned in section 142. This can happen even if nobody objected to your application under section 140 and nobody wrote a report against it under section 141.

You might not get a special licence because of this. The committee makes this decision by itself. They look at the information in section 142 to help them decide.

The committee's decision is based on their own thoughts about your application. They can say no to your special licence application. This is something they can do on their own, without anyone else telling them to.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing process: special licences: Applications for special licences

144Licensing committee may refuse special licence of own motion

  1. The licensing committee concerned may, having regard to any matter stated in section 142, refuse to issue a special licence, even if no objection was filed against the application for it under section 140 and no report was filed under section 141 opposing that application.