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AI Summary of 97. Information and documentation to accompany application: applications, licences, permits or certificates under relevant Acts

In this section, "relevant Acts" means the Act of 1929, the Act of 1931 and the Act of 1956. For the purposes of section 96(1)(g) the document specifies the information required to accompany an application or notification concerning a proposed licensee.

The specified information comprises: details of each licence or permit held or previously held under the relevant Acts by the proposed licensee and, where applicable, each relevant officer and each beneficial owner; for each such licence or permit, details of any suspension, revocation or other sanction imposed under the relevant Acts or any other enactment; statements of any refusal of an application for a licence or permit and reasons; statements of any refusal or revocation of a certificate of personal fitness under the Act of 1931 and reasons; confirmations whether there are undetermined applications under section 16 (Act of 1931) for revocation or under section 46 (Act of 1956) for revocation or suspension; and statements as to whether a holder under the Act of 1931 (or where applicable a corporate body of which a proposed licensee, relevant officer or beneficial owner was a relevant officer) unreasonably refused to pay winnings or to refund deposits where winnings were due.

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97. Information and documentation to accompany application: applications, licences, permits or certificates under relevant Acts

(1) In this section, "relevant Acts" means the Act of 1929, the Act of 1931 and the Act of 1956.

(2) The following information is specified for the purposes of section 96(1)(g):

(a) details of each licence or permit held or previously held under the relevant Acts by the proposed licensee and where applicable, each relevant officer and each beneficial owner of the proposed licensee;

(b) in relation to each licence or permit referred to in paragraph (a), details of any suspension or revocation of such licence or permit and details of any other sanction (howsoever described) imposed, under the relevant Acts or under any other enactment, on the holder of the licence or permit concerned by virtue of being such holder;

(c) a statement in respect of the proposed licensee, and, where applicable, each relevant officer and each beneficial owner of the proposed licensee, as the case may be, of any refusal of -

(i) an application for a licence or permit under the relevant Acts and the reasons given for such refusal,