Licensing (Provisional Certificate) Act 1941 (WA)

LICENSING

(PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATE)

5° and 6° GEO. VI., No. XLV.

No. 45 of 1941.

AN ACT to extend the time for making applications under section sixty-two of the Licensing Act, 1911-1939, in respect of provisional certificates granted by the Licensing Court during war time.

[Assented to 15th January, 1942.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Licensing (Provisional Short title.

Certificate) Act, 1941, and shall be read as one with the Licensing Act, 1911-1939, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context Definitions. The prescribed

"The prescribed period" means the period from period.

the commencement of this Act to the end of the

present war and twelve months thereafter.

The present

"The present war" means the war in which His war.

Majesty is engaged at the commencement of this

Act.

3.    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con- trizve,vettho

tamed in sections sixty-one and sixty-two of the principal provisional

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Act, where since the fifth day of December one thousand nine hundred and forty, and prior to the commencement of this Act, a provisional certificate has been granted under section sixty-one of the principal Act to any person, such person may, subject to the requirements of any

Commonwealth law or regulation affecting the same,

make application under section sixty-two of the principal Act for a publican's general license in pursuance of such provisional certificate at any sitting of the licensing court held at any time during the prescribed period, and the time specified in such provisional certificate and the time limited by the conditions indorsed on or attached to such provisional certificate (whether such times or either of them shall have expired or not) are hereby extended until the expiration of the prescribed period and the said conditions shall stand amended accordingly.