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Licensing Of Clubs (Amendment) Act (No. 38 of 1987) - Sect 2

Amendment of section 2 of Law No. 17 of 1978

2. Section 2 of the Licensing of Clubs Law,' No. 17 of 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby amended as follows:
(1) by the substitution, in subsection (2) of that section for paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), of the following paragraphs:
(a) sent in triplicate to the Chairman of the local authority through the Assistant Government Agent of the division within which the premises of the club to be licensed are located;
(b) substantially in the Form specified in the Schedule to this Act ;
(c) accompanied by a copy of the rules of the, club, duly certified by the secretary, president or manager to be a true copy thereof and the appropriate licence fee except where an exemption is claimed under section 5 and an application fee of fifty rupees; and";' and
(2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new subsections:
"(2A)
(1) No licence shall be issued under this Law in respect of a club formed on or after the date on which this sub on comes into operation, if the premises at which the club intends to carry on its activities are situated within two hundred and fifty metres from any place of religious worship, school or hospital.
(2) From and after the date On which this subsection comes into operation, no licence shall, be issued or renewed under this Law in respect of 8 club, whether formed before, on or after such date, "unless it is registered under the Societies Ordinance or incorporated by an Act of Parliament:
(2B) Where an application bas been made for a licence under this Law, the applicant shall cause to be erected at the premises at which the club is carrying on or intends to carryon its activities, a hoarding stating such ,fact and such hoarding shall not be removed until a final decision is made, and conveyed to the applicant, in respect of that application, and where the applicant fails to cause to be erected such a hoarding as required in this subsection he commits an offence under this Law..

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