(1) Any person desiring to register or renew the registration of any premises of which he is the proprietor in the register of bookmaking offices may, after publishing the notice hereinafter mentioned, apply in accordance with this section to the superintendent of the Gárda Síochána for the district in which such premises are situate for a certificate (in this Act referred to as a certificate of suitability of premises) that such premises are suitable for registration in the register of bookmaking offices.

(2) Every person intending to apply under this section for a certificate of suitability of premises shall, not less than one fortnight nor more than one month before making such application, publish notice of his intention to make such application at least once in each of two newspapers circulating in the district in which the premises to which such intended application relates are situate.

(3) Every application under this section for a certificate of suitability of premises shall be made in the prescribed manner and on the prescribed form and shall be approved of and signed by two Peace Commissioners for the district in which the premises to which the application relates are situate.