Licensing Act 1964 (repealed)

66 Sunday closing in Wales and Monmouthshire.E+W

(1)There shall be no permitted hours on any Sunday in licensed premises in Wales and Monmouthshire, except in a [F1county or county borough] in which this subsection does not apply.

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(3)If the local government electors for a [F3county or county borough] in which subsection (1) of this section applies determine by a majority, on a poll held in accordance with this and the next following section, that that subsection shall not apply, it shall not apply in that [F3county or, as the case may be, county borough]; and if the local government electors for a [F3county or county borough] in which that subsection does not apply determine by a majority on a poll so held that that subsection shall apply, it shall apply in that [F3county or, as the case may be, county borough].

(4)There shall be no poll under this section for a [F4county or county borough], unless it is requisitioned by not less than five hundred local government electors for the [F4county or county borough], and a requisition shall not be effective unless—

(a)it is contained in one or more requisition papers in the form in the appendix to Schedule 8 to this Act, signed by the requisitioning electors and giving the particulars of them required by that form; and

(b)the requisition papers are delivered to the [F5proper officer of the [F6county council or, as the case may be, county borough council]] within the two months following 3rd August [F71996], or within the same period seven or any multiple of seven years thereafter, and each requisition paper is accompanied by a statutory declaration verifying the signatures on it or by two or more statutory declarations between them verifying those signatures.

(5)Subject to subsection (6) of this section, the date for a poll under this section in any year shall be the same for all [F8counties and county boroughs] and shall be such day as the Secretary of State may direct, being not more than six weeks after the end of the period allowed under subsection (4) of this section for delivering requisition papers for the poll.

(6)If polling day at a general election for Parliament falls within the eight weeks after the end of the period allowed under subsection (4) of this section for delivering requisition papers, the date for the poll under this section may be more than six, but not more than twelve, weeks after the end of that period, and if Parliament is dissolved after the date has been fixed by a direction under subsection (5) of this section, the Secretary of State may revoke that direction and give a new direction fixing a later date.

(7)On receipt of a requisition for a poll under this section the [F5proper officer of the [F9county council or county borough council]] shall forthwith notify the Secretary of State, and after satisfying himself that the requisition complies with subsection (4) of this section (for which purpose he shall assume that the papers are signed by the persons by whom they purport to be signed) shall as soon as may be give public notice in the [F9county or county borough] in such manner as he thinks sufficient of the holding of the poll, and if the date for the poll is afterwards altered under subsection (6) of this section shall again give public notice accordingly.