s.7Nature of a licence
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Nature of a licence

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A licence is a permit to a business, an individual person or to two individual persons jointly, who may or may not be the servants or representatives of another named person, in compliance with this Law, to dispose of —
such intoxicating liquors;
in such quantities;
to such persons;
at such times;
at such premises; and
subject to such general conditions,
Persons or businesses licensed under subsection (1) are licensees under this Law.
Repealed by section 6 of the Liquor Licensing (Amendment) Law, 2015 [Law 21 of 2015].
A Board may, in granting or renewing a licence in respect of any premises, designate the whole or any part or parts of the licensed premises as a bar, but no area shall be or remain designated as a bar, unless it is capable of being locked off from the rest of the premises in such a way as to deny access thereto to persons other than the holder of the licence or the licence holder’s employees.
A Board must be satisfied, before granting a new restaurant licence or retail licence, which relates to the same premises and in respect of which a licence has not previously been granted, that the bar and the restaurant on the premises are separated in such a manner that access to and egress from the restaurant and the toilets of the premises are not through the bar.
A Board must be satisfied, before granting a new package licence or retail licence which relates to the same premises, that —
there is a clear demarcation between the areas used within the premises for the dispensing of intoxicating liquor under each licence; and
licensees are able to control each area.
A person who, not being a licensee or the employee of a licensee engaged in his duties as such, enters or remains in any bar during prohibited hours commits an offence and the licensee shall, unless he proves that the offence has been achieved by means of forcible entry by a person not being in his employment or control, be deemed to have aided and abetted such offence.
Sea-going vessels used for the entertainment of the public shall be deemed to be premises for the purposes of this section and the Board may grant a retail licence in respect thereof subject to such conditions as the Board may impose under paragraph (f) of subsection (1).
The bar of a sea-going vessel, in respect of which a licence has been issued under subsection (7), shall be locked off from the rest of the vessel and no intoxicating liquor may be disposed of, exposed for sale, offered for sale or consumed on such vessel while it is at or within half a mile of any land.

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