{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1214",
  "legislation_title": "Poisons (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poisons-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Forfeiture of licences for certain offences",
  "text": "(1) A licence under section 117(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 1952 1952 c.44 for the sale of methylated spirits by retail, held by any person who is convicted of an offence to which this paragraph applies, shall, in addition to any other penalty, forfeiture or term of imprisonment which the court may impose, be annulled, unless the court by which the conviction has been made is satisfied that, by reason of the existence of extenuating circumstances in connection with the offence, the licence ought not to be annulled.\n(2) The court by which a conviction mentioned in paragraph (1) has been made shall record in its order either the annulment of the licence or, as the case may be, the extenuating circumstances.\n(3) The offences to which paragraph (1) applies are—\n(a) the selling of methylated spirits without being duly licensed or authorised in that behalf; and\n(b) any offence under section 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 or 28 of the Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Act 1831 1831 c.55.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1979 c. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1214/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:41.622100+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}