[23 GEO. 5.]
Children and Young Persons Act, 1933.
[CH. 12.]
charged allowed the child or young person to be in A.D. 1933. the street, premises, or place, he shall be presumed to have allowed him to be in the street, premises, or place for that purpose unless the contrary is proved.
(3) If any person while singing, playing, performing or offering anything for sale in a street or public place has with him a child who has been lent or hired out to him, the child shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be in that street or place for the purpose of inducing the giving of alms.
PART I.
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children
5. If any person gives, or causes to be given, to Giving in- any child under the age of five years any intoxica- toxicating ting liquor, except upon the order of a duly qualified liquor to medical practitioner, or in case of sickness, apprehended under five. sickness, or other urgent cause, he shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding three pounds.
6.-(1) The holder of the licence of any licensed Causing or premises shall not allow a child to be at any time in the allowing bar of the licensed premises during the permitted hours.
children to
be in bars
(2) If the holder of a licence acts in contravention of licensed of this section, or if any person causes, or procures, or premises. attempts to cause or procure, any child to go to, or to be in, the bar of any licensed premises during the permitted hours, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding, in respect of the first offence, forty shillings, and in respect of any subsequent offence, five pounds.
(3) If a child is found in the bar of any licensed premises during the permitted hours, the holder of the licence shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this section unless he shows that he had used due diligence to prevent the child from being admitted to the bar or that the child had apparently attained the age of fourteen years.
(4) Nothing in this section shall apply in the case of any child who is-
(a) a child of the licence holder; or
(b) resident but not employed in the licensed
premises; or
(c) in the bar of licensed premises solely for the
purpose of passing to or from some other part of the premises, being a part to or from which
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