PART V.

Miscellaneous.

30. —Nothing in the Licensing (Ireland) Acts, 1833 to 1929, or in this Act, shall be deemed to prohibit any licensed person or his private friends from gaming by way of playing cards for stakes on licensed premises provided that such gaming is carried on in any part of such licensed premises other than the part in which the sale of intoxicating liquor generally takes place and the private friends of the licensed person are being bona fide entertained by him at his own expense.

31. —(1) A person who is at the one time the holder of a beerhouse licence and the holder of a publican's licence shall, if the premises to which the said licences are respectively attached are situate in the same district or adjoining districts, be entitled, on application at any sitting of the justice of the District Court in whose district are situate the premises to which the beerhouse licence is attached, to have the publican's licence transferred to the premises to which the beerhouse licence is attached, but subject to the condition that, on such transfer being made, the beerhouse licence shall not be renewed and the premises to which the publican's licence was attached before such transfer shall, for the purposes of the Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1902, be deemed never to have been licensed.

(2) A person who is at the one time the holder of a six-day beerhouse licence and the holder of a seven-day beerhouse licence shall, on application at any sitting of the justice of the District Court in whose district are situate the premises to which the six-day beerhouse licence is attached, be entitled to have the seven-day beerhouse licence transferred to the premises to which the six-day beerhouse licence is attached, but subject to the condition that, on such transfer being made, the six-day beerhouse licence shall not be renewed and the premises to which the seven-day beerhouse licence was attached before such transfer shall, for the purposes of the Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1902, be deemed never to have been licensed.

(3) In this section, the expressions “publican's licence” and “beerhouse licence” have the meanings given to them respectively by section 52 of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, for the purposes of Part II of that Act, and the word “district” means a district of the District Court prescribed under section 68 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924).

32. —So much of section 1 of the Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1833, as requires the production of a certificate signed by six householders, that is to say, that portion of the said section beginning with the words “upon the production” and ending with the words “the past year” is hereby repealed.