PART IV

PART IV

Club Licence

47. Application for a club licence

The Secretary of a club or any person duly authorised in that behalf by the club shall, if it is intended to sell foreign liquor at such club, apply in Forms F.L./A-1-D to the ⁶Superintendent of State Excise⁶ for a club licence in that behalf. Every such application shall be accompanied by a challan evidencing payment of a fee of ¹rupees fifty¹ in respect of such licence.

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48. Grant of licence and its duration

⁶(1) Grant of licence and its duration⁶―On receipt of the application under rule 47, the ⁶Superintendent, State Excise⁶ shall make inquiries for verification of the details stated in the application and also such other inquiries as he deems necessary, for the disposal of the application. He shall consider the suitability or otherwise of the premises for the grant of licence and after satisfying himself that the premises where it is proposed to sell the Foreign Liquor are in conformity with the provisions of the rules and that there is no objection to grant the licence in accordance with the rules, he may inform the applicant of the decision, and grant the licence in Form FL-1V on recovery of such licence fee (inclusive of consideration), as may be specified by the State Government or Commissioner, from time to time; and a deposit of Rupees One Thousand.

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⁸(1C) No licence under sub-rule (1B) shall be granted in respect of any club which, if situated in areas within the jurisdiction of any local self-government body having population not exceeding 20,000, is within a distance of two hundred and twenty metres and if situated elsewhere, within a distance of five hundred metres from the edge of any National or State Highway, or in case of any existing service road then the distance from the edge of such service road adjacent to the National or State Highway.⁸

Explanation―For the purposes of this sub-rule the distance referred to shall be measured from the mid-point of the entrance of the club along with the nearest path by which a pedestrian ordinarily reaches to the edge of any National or State Highway, or in case of any existing service road then to the edge of such service road adjacent to the National or State Highway.

⁸(1D) No License under sub-rule (1) shall be granted or renewed in respect of any club which shall bear a name of the national personalities or any subsequent change in the name of national personalities and shall not bear the name of any of the Forts declared by the Central Government as protected monuments under the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 (7 of 1904) and by the State Government as protected monuments under the Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1960 (Mah. XII of 1961), as specified in the Schedule-II appended to these rules.⁸

(2) No licence shall be granted for a period beyond 31st March next following the date of the commencement of the licence.

²(3) Any person desiring to renew a licence shall, thirty days before the date of expiry of the licence, apply for the renewal thereof. Every such application shall be accompanied by a challan evidencing payment of a fee of Rs. 25.²

(4) Any licence granted under sub-rule (1) of rule 48, may be renewed by the ⁶Superintendent of State Excise⁶ for a period not exceeding one year at a time on payment of the same fee as prescribed under sub-rule (3).