ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1886.
Spirit Licences.
10. The Magistrates, or either of them, may from time to time appoint a day for the granting or transferring of licences, which shall be advertised in the Government Gazette and a public newspaper at least one week previously, and the said Magistrates, or either of them, with the assistance of such other Justices of the Peace as may attend on the said day, shall take into consideration all applications which may have been made for licences for the sale of liquors within the Colony, and the presiding Magistrate may adjourn the consideration of all or any of such applications to any other lawful day.
11. Every application for the grant or transfer of a licence shall be decided by a majority of votes of the Justices present, in the case of equality the presiding Magistrate shall, in addition to one original vote, have a casting vote.
Provided however that in case of any applicant being dissatisfied with the order of the Justices or the majority thereof, it will be lawful for the Governor in Council to alter and amend the order, on the petition of the dissatisfied party.
12. Every applicant for a licence, who may be approved by the Justices assembled as above, shall enter into a recognizance in the form of schedule D or E according to the nature of the licence he requires, whereupon the Magistrate shall deliver to him a certificate in the form of schedule F or G according to the nature of his application; and the Magistrate shall, within ten days, transmit to the Treasurer a return of all such certificates as may have been granted in the form of schedule H to this Ordinance.
13. The applicant may, within fourteen days from the date of such certificate, lodge it in the Treasury together with the fee provided by schedule P to this Ordinance, whereupon the Treasurer shall issue to him a licence in the form of schedule I or according to the nature of the licence for which the certificate is granted, such licence to be called a public house licence in the one case, or an adjunct licence in the other.
14. Every public house or adjunct licence shall be valid only until the 30th of November next following the date on which it is granted: Always provided that where this period is less than a year a proportionate part only of the aforesaid fee shall be charged, to which (except in the case of the transfer of a licence) ten per cent shall be added.
15. The Magistrates shall keep a record of all recognizances entered into under section 12, and the Treasurer shall keep a record of all licences issued under section 13 of this Ordinance.