Number 34 of 1983

INTOXICATING LIQUOR (NATIONAL CONCERT HALL) ACT, 1983

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Number 34 of 1983

INTOXICATING LIQUOR (NATIONAL CONCERT HALL) ACT, 1983

Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

“the Acts” means the Licensing Acts, 1833 to 1981;

“the Company” means the National Concert Hall Company;

“the Concert Hall” means the premises known as the National Concert Hall and situated at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin;

“function” means a concert or conference at the Concert Hall to which persons are admitted upon payment or by invitation, and, where a function extends over more than one day, the part of the function held on any day shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a separate function.

Licence for sale of intoxicating liquor at Concert Hall.

2.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Acts, the Revenue Commissioners shall, on application to them by the Company, grant to the Company, or a person nominated by it, a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor at the Concert Hall.

(2) A licence under this section shall operate, during such time as the Concert Hall is occupied by the Company, to authorise, during the period beginning 30 minutes before the commencement of a function and ending one hour after its conclusion, but during no other period, the sale of intoxicating liquor at the Concert Hall, for consumption therein, to persons attending or taking part in the function and persons employed at the Concert Hall.

(3) A person who sells intoxicating liquor at the Concert Hall otherwise than in accordance with a licence under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £500.

(4) Upon the grant of a licence under this section, any licence under the Acts relating to the Concert Hall shall cease to have effect.

Restriction of certain provisions of Licensing Acts, 1833 to 1981.

3.—Sections 4 and 5 and Part III of the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927, section 11 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1962, and the provisions, in relation to prohibited hours, of the Acts shall not apply in relation to the Concert Hall.

Short title, construction and collective citation.

4.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Intoxicating Liquor (National Concert Hall) Act, 1983.

(2) The Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Licensing Acts, 1833 to 1983, and shall be construed together as one.

Uimhir 34 de 1983

AN tACHT DEOCHANNA MEISCIÚLA (AN CEOLÁRAS NÁISIÚNTA), 1983

[An tiontú oifigiúil]

Mínithe.

1.—San Acht seo—

ciallaíonn “na hAchtanna” na hAchtanna Ceadúnúcháin, 1833 go 1981;

ciallaíonn “an Chuideachta” Cuideachta an Cheolárais Náisiúnta;

ciallaíonn “an Ceoláras” an t-áitreabh dá ngairtear an Ceoláras Náisiúnta agus atá suite in Ardán Phort an Iarla, Baile Átha Cliath;

ciallaíonn “dálas” coirm cheoil nó comhdháil sa Cheoláras a ligtear daoine isteach chuici ar tháille a íoc nó trí chuireadh, agus, i gcás ina mairfidh dálas níos mó ná lá amháin, measfar, chun críocha an Achta seo, gur dálas ar leithligh an chuid den dálas a sheolfar aon lá.

Ceadúnas chun deochanna meisciúla a dhíol sa Cheoláras.

2.—(1) D'ainneoin aon ní sna hAchtanna, deonóidh na Coimisinéirí Ioncaim, ar iarratas chucu ón gCuideachta, ceadúnas don Chuideachta nó do dhuine a ainmneoidh an Chuideachta chun deochanna meisciúla a dhíol sa Cheoláras.

(2) Oibreoidh ceadúnas faoin alt seo, le linn an ama a mbeidh an Ceoláras á áitiú ag an gCuideachta, chun údarás a thabhairt, i gcaitheamh na tréimhse dar tosach 30 nóiméad sula dtosóidh dálas agus dar críoch uair an chloig tar éis dó críochnú, ach ní aon tráth eile, deochanna meisciúla a dhíol sa Cheoláras, chun a gcaite ann, le daoine a bheidh ag freastal ar an dálas nó ag glacadh páirt ann agus le daoine ar fostú sa Cheoláras,

(3) Duine a dhíolfaidh deochanna meisciúla sa Cheoláras ar shlí seachas de réir ceadúnais faoin alt seo beidh sé ciontach i gcion, agus dlífear, ar é a chiontú go hachomair, fíneáil nach mó ná £500 a chur air.

(4) Ar cheadúnas a dheonú faoin alt seo, scoirfidh aon cheadúnas faoi na hAchtanna a bhaineann leis an gCeoláras d'éifeacht a bheith leis.

Srian le forálacha áirithe de na hAchtanna Ceadúnúcháin, 1833 go 1981.

3.—Ní bheidh feidhm i ndáil leis an gCeoláras ag ailt 4 agus 5 agus Cuid III den Acht Deocha Meisciúla, 1927, ag alt 11 den Acht Deochanna Meisciúla, 1962, ná ag forálacha na nAchtanna i ndáil le tráthanna toirmiscthe.

Gearrtheideal, forléiriú agus comhlua.

4.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht Deochanna Meisciúla (An Ceoláras Náisiúnta), 1983, a ghairm den Acht seo.

(2) Féadfar na hAchtanna Ceadúnúcháin, 1833 go 1983, a ghairm de na hAchtanna agus den Acht seo le chéile, agus forléireofar le chéile iad mar aon ní amháin.