Article 21 Notice in respect of article 17 applications

(1)

Each Board is to give notice in accordance with this article to every person who at the time when the notice is to be given appears to the Board to be the holder of a licence or certificate of registration falling within paragraph (2).

(2)

A licence or certificate of registration falls within this paragraph if it was granted or issued in respect of premises within the area of the Board before the beginning of the transitional period and it is–

(a)

a licence under Part II or III of the 1976 Act (other than an occasional licence); or

(b)

a certificate of registration under Part VII of that Act.

(3)

The first notice is to be given during the month of January 2008.

(4)

The second notice is to be given subsequent to the first notice and no later than one month before the date which is (in terms of article 20) the appropriate date in respect of the premises in question.

(5)

Notice under paragraph (1) is to advise the recipient of what is the appropriate date in relation to the premises in question and of the consequences of an application under section 20 of the 2005 Act not being made by that date.