Part 3Licensing trusts, community trusts, and other matters
Other matters: Transitional matters
406Disposal of certain applications made within 6 months after day of assent
This section applies to an application made under the 1989 Act for a licence, the cancellation, renewal, or suspension of a licence, or a variation of a licence, if it was filed before the day 6 months after the day of assent.
An application to which this section applies must be dealt with by the licensing authority or District Licensing Agency—
- under the 1989 Act; and
- as if this Act had not been enacted.
If the application for it was made after the day of assent, a licence granted (by virtue of subsection (2)) under the 1989 Act has effect as a temporary licence only, and if not earlier renewed, expires 12 months after it is issued.
The person who made an application to which this section applies may ask the licensing authority or District Licensing Agency (as the case requires) to consider it under section 407 instead of this section, and in that case, it must be dealt with under that section as if it were an application to which that section applies, but not before the day that is 6 months after the day of assent.
Subsections (3) and (4) override subsection (2).
In this section and sections 407 and 408,—
1989 Act means the Sale of Liquor Act 1989
day of assent means the day on which this Act received the Royal assent
District Licensing Agency means the appropriate District Licensing Agency under the 1989 Act.