{"id":2734,"date":"2021-09-29T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalblog.ie\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:38:40","slug":"offences-and-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Offences &#038; Forfeiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_63 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Endorsement_of_Offences\" title=\"Endorsement of Offences\">Endorsement of Offences<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Forfeiture\" title=\"Forfeiture\">Forfeiture<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Transfer_Endorsement\" title=\"Transfer &amp; Endorsement\">Transfer &amp; Endorsement<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Licence_Register\" title=\"Licence Register\">Licence Register<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Covered_Offences\" title=\"Covered Offences\">Covered Offences<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Temporary_Closure\" title=\"Temporary Closure\">Temporary Closure<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Continuation\" title=\"Continuation\">Continuation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Forfeitures\" title=\"Forfeitures\">Forfeitures<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/offences-and-licences\/#Disqualification\" title=\"Disqualification\">Disqualification<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Endorsement_of_Offences\"><\/span>Endorsement of Offences<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Certain convictions in respect of the breach of the Intoxicating Liquor Acts are endorsed on the licence.\u00a0 In the case of prohibited hours, the recording of convictions is discretionary.<\/p>\n<p>A first conviction is not necessarily recorded. \u00a0If recorded, a \u00a0first conviction if recorded is \u00a0recorded for two years.\u00a0 A second conviction is recorded for four years. A \u00a0third and every subsequent conviction lasts six year<\/p>\n<p>Whether a person is convicted twice in \u00a0same court for offences on different dates, the conviction for the second dates are not regarded as the same offence.<\/p>\n<p>Convictions against a former licensee after a bona fide transfer are not endorsable on the transferred licence.<\/p>\n<p>Convictions are removed if the licence holder is acquitted on appeal. The \u00a0Circuit Judge may affirm the conviction and has discretion to declare that thee conviction shall not be recorded.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forfeiture\"><\/span>Forfeiture<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Where the holder of a licence is convicted of an offence under the legislation and at the time of such recording two convictions are recorded, the licence shall be forfeited.\u00a0 Where a licence is forfeited, no new licence shall be granted in respect of the premises or any part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Forfeiture, despite its potentially serious consequences in relation to the livelihood of the licence holder t, is not such as to require a trial by jury. The underlying offences remain minor offences.<\/p>\n<p>When a person is convicted of two or more offences on the same day, the court may order that one conviction only shall be recorded.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Transfer_Endorsement\"><\/span>Transfer &amp; Endorsement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Where the applicant having on a bona fide purchase satisfies the court that the transfer is for the purpose of giving effect to a bona fide sale, the court shall if it grants the certificate for transfer direct, offences then recorded to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Where a licence is transferred, freed and discharged and the transferor applies for licence within five years, whether in the same or another licensing area, the court shall direct that the offences that were recorded on the first licence be recorded on the second licence.<\/p>\n<p>A person who makes an application for transfer is under an \u00a0obligation to disclose the above circumstances to the court.\u00a0 The omission to record a conviction on the licence does not affect its validity.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Licence_Register\"><\/span>Licence Register<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A register of licences is kept.\u00a0 It includes evidence and particulars of endorsement.\u00a0 The particulars of endorsement in the register are presumptively corre<\/p>\n<p>Whenever the holder of a licence is charged, the summons or other document, bringing the holder before the court shall state that the holder is required to produce his licence to the court.\u00a0 Where a recordable offence occurs, the registrar or clerk is to endorse the licence with details of the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The Probation Act does not apply to offences under this provision.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Covered_Offences\"><\/span>Covered Offences<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This legislation \u00a0applies to offences scheduled which include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>permitting gaming,<\/li>\n<li>obstructing Gardai S\u00edoch\u00e1na,<\/li>\n<li>making premises available as unlicensed drinking premises,<\/li>\n<li>contravention of the terms of certain licences,<\/li>\n<li>sale to a persons under age,<\/li>\n<li>supplying to persons who are drunk.<\/li>\n<li>permitting, disorderly conduct and<\/li>\n<li>permitting intoxicating liquor sold to be consumed near the premises<\/li>\n<li>permitting premises to be used for a certain disorderly purposes, harbouring, bribing and certain other acts, in relation to the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na;<\/li>\n<li>off-licence, breach of certain regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latter four cases are subject to the court&#8217;s discretion.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Temporary_Closure\"><\/span>Temporary Closure<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the case of convictions for so-called underage drinking, the court must issue a temporary closure order.\u00a0 This may be between two and seven days for a first offence and between seven and thirty days for second and subsequent offences.\u00a0 See generally the sections in relation to &#8220;underage drinking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are similar provisions in respect of breaches by the licensee in respect of the provisions against \u00a0drunkenness and disorderly conduct.\u00a0 See the separate sections in that regard.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Continuation\"><\/span>Continuation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Where a licensed person or a spirit grocer is convicted for the first time of certain offences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>selling spirits without a licence,<\/li>\n<li>serious indictable offences,<\/li>\n<li>making an internal communication with an unlicensed premises and<\/li>\n<li>becomes disqualified as his licence is forfeited.,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the District Court may give authority to carry on the business at the same premises until the District Court sittings are next heard, next one month thereafter.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forfeitures\"><\/span>Forfeitures<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If the holder of a retail licence to sell beer or spirits is convicted of a certain serious offences, the District Court may annul his licence after due notice.<\/p>\n<p>The 1833 \u00a0Act also provides that \u201c no .. bailiff, gaoler, turnkey, guard, sheriff, sub-sheriff, peace officer or a non-householder may \u00a0hold a publican&#8217;s licence\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disqualification\"><\/span>Disqualification<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A person who has been convicted of a drug trafficking offence is disqualified from ever holding in intoxicating liquor, public dancing licence or any public music or singing licence. A drug trafficking offence refers to certain offences in relation to manufacture production importation and supply of controlled drugs and certain equivalent offences.<\/p>\n<p>Where \u00a0the holder of intoxicating liquor licence is convicted of a drug trafficking offence the Superintendent Garda Siochana may request this court to forfeit the licence. Such person is disqualified from holding a licence again.<\/p>\n<p>A person who is disqualified from holding a licence under any of the provisions may not be a shadow licence holder. A shadow licence holder is a person who directs the holder of the licence in relation to the operation by reason of an understanding, arrangement ,direction, profit sharing \u00a0or control, or is able to share in the profits and gains of the licensed trade.<\/p>\n<p>A disqualified person may not act as a shadow licence holder. There is provision for application to the District Court by member of an Garda Siochana in relation to a disqualified person who is acting as a shadow licence holder. The holder of the licence is subject to similar disqualifications. Similar provisions apply in respect of public dancing, \u00a0public music and singing licences<\/p>\n<p>On \u00a0application by a member of an Garda Siochana above a certain rank to the District Court, where the court is satisfied that the person has allowed premises to be used for the sale of controlled drugs then the District Court may suspend the licence. An application shall not be made on the basis that the licence holder did not exercise control which is reasonable in the circumstances unless<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a member of an Garda Siochana has previously advised the licence holder that he has reasonable suspicion that there was such sale or supply,<\/li>\n<li>warned the licence holder to take whatever action was necessary and<\/li>\n<li>given the licence holder\u00a0 a reasonable period not less than four weeks to take whatever action was specified.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where \u00a0the intoxicating liquor licence is suspended under this power it is suspended for three years. A person so convicted shall not hold any other licence in this period.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2734\" data-postid=\"2734\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2734 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endorsement of Offences Certain convictions in respect of the breach of the Intoxicating Liquor Acts are endorsed on the licence.\u00a0 In the case of prohibited hours, the recording of convictions is discretionary. A first conviction is not necessarily recorded. \u00a0If recorded, a \u00a0first conviction if recorded is \u00a0recorded for two years.\u00a0 A second conviction is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}