LAGOS STATE LIQUOR (LICENSING) LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

LIQUOR (LICENSING) LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1 – Preliminary

PART 2 – Licensing Areas and Tribunals

1.       Licensing areas

2.       Licensing tribunals

3.       Power of tribunal to grant licences

PART 3 – Liquor Licences

4.       Descriptions of liquor licences

5.       Authority conferred by licences

6.       Permitted hours and occasions on which sale prohibited. Powers of Commissioner

7.       Prohibition of sale of liquor to a child or young person for his own consumption

8.       Restriction of presence or employment of a child or young person in a liquor licensed premises

9.       Club licence

10.     Temporary liquor licences

11.     Railway restaurant car liquor licence

12.     Conditions may be imposed

13.     Conditions against discrimination to be implied

14.     Duration of licences

15.     Form of licence

PART 4 – Procedure

SITTINGS

16.     Quarterly and special sittings

FIRE PRECAUTIONS

17.     Fire precautions at licensed premises, etc.

NEW LICENCES AND RENEWALS

18.     Applications

19.     Procedure on receipt of applications

20.     Objections

21.     Procedure at hearing

22.     Grounds on which licence may be refused

23.     Issue of licences

24.     Issue of temporary licence when renewal refused

25.     Death of insolvency of applicant

TRANSFERS AND REMOVALS

26.     Transfer of licences

27.     Removal

28.     Fresh application to be made on the expiration of a licence transferred

29.     Temporary authority to continue business

30.     Duties and liabilities of a transferee

RAILWAY RESTAURANT CAR LIQUOR LICENCES

31.     Provisions relating to railway restaurant car liquor licences

PART 5 – Appeals

32.     Appeals to lie to Commissioner

33.     Continuance of licence pending appeal

PART 6 – Manufacturing Licences

34.     Commissioner may grant manufacturing licences

PART 7 – Offences

35.     Selling liquor without a licence

36.     Manufacturing beer, etc., without a licence

37 .    Breach of condition by a licence holder

38.     Offences by retail licence holder

39.     Goods not to be sold on certain licensed premises

40.     Offences by person other than licence holders

4l .     Signboards

42.     Power to expel drunkards, etc., from licensed premises

43.     Conviction to be endorsed on licence

44.     Imprisonment may be imposed on second or subsequent conviction

15.     Forfeiture of liquor

46.     Powers of magistrate and police officers

47. Incriminated informer not to incur penalty

48. Licence liable to forfeiture on conviction

PART 8 – Country Liquor

49.     Application of Part

50.     Power to make regulations

PART 9 – Miscellaneous

51.     Functions conferred on Federal officers

52.     Power to make regulations

53.     Power to make By-Laws

54.     Exemptions

55.     Interpretation

56.     Citation

LIQUOR (LICENSING) LAW

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA