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(1) The local authority empowered under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928, to grant petroleum-spirit licences may transfer a petroleum-spirit licence granted by such an authority, by endorsement of the licence or otherwise, and the Secretary of State may transfer in like manner a petroleum-spirit licence granted by him.
(2) As from the date on which a petroleum-spirit licence is transferred—
(a) the licence shall authorise the keeping of petroleum-spirit by the transferee and shall cease to authorise the keeping thereof by any other person;
(b) the said Act shall have effect in relation to the licence as if for references in the said Act to the person to whom the licence was granted there had been substituted references to the transferee, and the licence shall have effect, unless the context otherwise requires, as if the like substitution had been made in the licence;
(c) subject as aforesaid, the licence shall have the like effect in all respects as if no transfer had been made.
(3) The said Act shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, as if the foregoing provisions of this section had been contained in the said Act as originally enacted.
(4) In respect of a transfer of a petroleum-spirit licence made after the commencement of this Act, there shall be payable by the transferee to the local authority or to the Secretary of State, as the case may be, a fee of two shillings and sixpence.
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This Act may be cited as the Petroleum (Transfer of Licences) Act, 1936, and shall be construed as one with the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Petroleum (Regulation) Acts, 1928 and 1936.