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The Courthouse, 23 New Street, Newry - Application For Bookmaker’s Licence
What is proposed?
Betting, Gaming Lotteries and Amusements
(Northern Ireland) Order 1985
(Article 8 (1) Schedule 1, Paragraph 2)
Notice of Application For Bookmaker’s Licence
Petty Sessions District of Newry, County Court
Division of Armagh and South Down
TAKE NOTICE that I Ciaran Michael Hughes of 17 Rostrevor Road, Warrenpoint, Co Down BT34 3RT intends to apply to the Magistrates' Court sitting at Newry on Monday 20th April 2026 at 10.30am for the grant of a bookmaker’s licence. I will be the owner of the business proposed to be carried on under the licence. The required receipts from the Department for The Communities and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs have been lodged in Court.
Any person intending to object to the application shall not less than one week before the 20th of April 2026 serve notice upon the applicant of his intention to object briefly stating his grounds for doing so and serve a copy of the Notice on the Clerk of Petty Sessions, The Courthouse, 23 New Street, Newry BT35 6JD.
The grounds for objection are set out in Article 8 (4) and (6) of the above Order i.e. non compliance with the procedure for making the application, unfitness of the Applicant to hold a Bookmakers Licence, that the Applicant has been disqualified from holding Bookmaker’s Licence or has been refused the grant or renewal of a Bookmaker's Licence within the previous twelve months or that the Applicant intends to allow the business to be carried on by a person who would be refused a licence or that the Applicant has been convicted of an offence under Part Two of the above Order and Part One of the Betting and Lotteries Act (Northern Ireland) 1957.
Dated this 16th day of March 2026.
Signed: Tommy Donnelly, 46 Ballymoyle Road, Cookstown on behalf of the applicant.
