Period of license.

16. Every license granted under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be and continue in force from and after the date of the granting thereof until the thirty-first day of December then next ensuing and no longer and when any License shall be granted under the provisions of this Ordinance after the first day of July in any year one half only of the said license fee shall be payable for the said licenses respectively and such license shall have full force and effect throughout the Province of Otago and all licenses granted under the said hereinbefore repealed Ordinance page 51 and existing and being in force .and operation at the commencement of this Ordinance shall have full force and operation throughout the Province of Otago notwithstanding anything in the slid repealed Ordinance to the contrary.