Licensing laws

mikep

Hello all..

My freinds and I have a debate going on about how some shops and petrol stations can sell wine.

Do you need a licence or is one only required where beer and spirits are sold??

whiskeyman

There's a special "Wine Licence" AFAIK...

steveland?

My parents own a cafe in Kerry and they have a wine licence. They're not allowed sell beer or spirits though.

There was a restaurant down there that had a wine licence, some woman came in, sat down, had her meal, asked for an Irish coffee afterwards, sat there, drank her coffee, paid for her meal and promptly took out a badge saying she was from some licencing bureau or another and they were getting fined for serving whiskey in the coffee without a proper licence...

Bit crap really...

They can sell wine because a wine licence is a lot easier to obtain that a general booze licence (the official name for it I believe )

whiskeyman

steveland? wrote:

They can sell wine because a wine licence is a lot easier to obtain that a general booze licence (the official name for it I believe )

Found some more info:
For a full off-license, three licenses are required: spirits, beer and wine.
Prior to the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2000, new off-trade licenses could also not be issued. That Act removed restrictions on the grant of a wine retailer’s ‘off’ licence and a beer retailer’s ‘off’ licence.
Previously it had been a requirement that in order to hold a wine off-licence a business must also have held a beer or spirits license.
No court certificate is required for a wine off-license to be granted. This makes a wine off-license the easiest license for which to apply and there has been a massive increase in wine licences (from 364 in 1993 to 2,203 in 2002).
You'll often see a lot of restaurants advertising themselves as "fully licenced" to show they can serve all the intoxicants you wish

mikep

Thanks Whiskeyman....
Thats all the info I need.:)

rubadub

Many resturaunts will also sell beer even if they only have a wine licence, the donation to the garda benelovent fund is cheaper than getting a wine licence, and then you are left alone. Selling spirits is a bit different though. We used to always complain that our local garage would not get in cider, I presumed it was wine, but maybe it falls under a different category, I remember they raised the tax on only cider a while back. Dont know what apple wine is defined as if it is, maybe % is taken into account.

Yeah!there is a special wine license.it isnt mightily expensive either.heck a bar license however is worth far more.