Section 27A of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:
“(2) The Commissioner may refuse to grant a group retail tobacconist's licence or a group wholesale tobacconist's licence if, in the opinion of the Commissioner, a member of the group by or on behalf of whom application for the licence is made would not be a fit and proper person to hold a retail tobacconist's licence or a wholesale tobacconist's licence (as the case may be).”;
(b) by omitting from subsection (3) all the words after “hold” and substituting “such a licence”; and
(c) by omitting from subsection (4) “or 27 (1) (c)”.