Section 7, The Spirits (Distillation and short title (1962)

(1) On the expiry of the period for the submission of Grant ofapplications under section 6 the Board shall meet to grant omole licences and (a) the total quantity of onole whiclh a licenscd company must offer to purchase under the condi tions of its licence; general (2) The Board shall invite one representative of a conditions licensed company to attend its meeting as an observer. governing the grant (3) In granting or refusing omole licences the Board of omole shall have regard to the following considerations (b) the price to be paid for omole by a licensed company; (c) the number of persons associated in any one such application made by a partnership, a registered company or aco-operative society; (d) the place at which an applicant proposes to distil spirits having regard to the desirability of a fair distribution of such licences throughout Sierra Leone in so far as the economic circum stances permit; and (e) any other considerations which in the opinion of A 15 the Board are relevant to the economic prospects of a particular applicant or of the applicants generally to whom omole licences may be granted. (4) Every omole 1licence shall specify the quantity of omole which the holder is required to offer to a licensed com pany during the following twelve months. Such quantity may exceed but shall not be less than three thousand gallons, and the Board may specify different quantities in different licences. (5) The total of the quantities of omole specified under Subsection (4) in the omole licences issued by the Board in any calendar year for the supply of omole to a licensed company shall not exceed the total quantity of omole which such licensed company is required to offer to purchase in that year. initial omole prescribed by and shall be submitted to the Board within a period of sixty days from the first publication of such notice. A 16 Expiry and renewal of licences and grant Omole licenceholder to keep records. No. 5 Revocationof special licençe. Spirits (Distillation and Licensing) 1962 (6) The Board shall not be required to give its reasons for the grant or refusal of an omole licence, but shall publish (7) Any applicant aggrieved by a decision of the Board may appeal to the Minister whose decision shall be final. (8) An omole liccnce slhall be in the prescribed form and shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty pounds: (2) The Board shall meet annually in November or of additional December to grant omole licences for the following calendar year omole Provided that if the first of such licences issued after the coming into operation of the Act are issued in the second quar ter of the year the fee for that year shall be fifteen pounds only and if in the third or fourth quarters of the year shall be ten pounds and five pounds respectively.