The intoxicating liquor legislation is quite complex and reflects the distinct inputs of the Garda Siochana, the Courts, the Fire Authorities \u00a0and the Revenue Commissioners.\u00a0 Licence fees are in the nature of excise taxes.<\/p>\n
In some cases, renewal fees and fees for extensions are significant and are in effect taxes on the underlying business.\u00a0 In other cases, the fees or the duties of fees are relatively small.<\/p>\n
The licensing system is somewhat dated and in other jurisdictions, the function has been moved to an administrative bodies (England and Wales, 2003).\u00a0 The \u00a0equivalent system of licensing of other bodies such as the licensing of auctioneers was moved from the District Court \u00a0system of objection to an administrative body, the Property Services Regulatory Authority.<\/p>\n\n
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Bodies Involved Intoxicatating liquor licensing control is undertaken under the auspices of the District Court and the Circuit Court and their respective offices.\u00a0 The Garda Siochana is intimately involved.\u00a0 The Fire Authority has also been given a role within the last 40 years. The licensing system is focused on public order in the control and […]<\/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\/2753"}],"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=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12754,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}