Prohibition
of taking pledge for liquor.
Measures or
weights for sale of liquor.
Power to search suspected premises.
Drinking in unlicensed place.
Prohibition
of payment of journey- men. etc., at place where liquor
is sold.
General powers of Police.
Issue of dealers'
licences.
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contained shall extend to prevent any innkeeper from keeping an account with a lodger in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in a Court of Justice.
General Provisions.
24. No person licensed under this. Ordinance shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any enter tainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever, except money.
25. Every person licensed under this Ordinance shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures or weights legalized in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint or except when the liquor is sold in bottles, and shall also measure or weigh such liquors in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.
20. If any person is convicted of unlawfully retailing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person and the house, lodging, shop, or warehouse where such offence has been committed, and any court or yard connected therewith shall be liable to be searched, at any time of the day or night, by any Police officer, with or without a warraut, for six mouths next after such convic- tion, provided that the same or any part thereof is then occupied by the person so convicted.'
27. Whenever any Police officer finds any person drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for such sale is not, on demand, produced to such Police officer, it shall be lawful for such Police officer to apprehend all such persons so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, if such place is in fact unlicensed, forfeit and pay, on summary conviction, for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person informs against such unlicensed person or volun- tarily becomes a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
28. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, and not being the licensed keeper of a house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer in or at any such house.
29.-(1.) Every person licensed under this Ordinance shall produce his licence to any Police officer, on being re- quired to do so.
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(2.) Any European officer of Police shall have free access to every part of any house licensed under any the Sections 18, 33 and 34 at any hour of the night or day.
Dealers' Licences.
30.-(1.) Every person desirous of obtaining a dealer's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply to the Colonial Treasurer, who may, in his discretion, grant to the applicant a licence in the Form No. 7 in the First Schedule, to this Form No. 7. Ordinance, upon payment of the appropriate fee specified
in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance.
First
Schedule:
Making of regulations and condi- tions.
(2.) Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.
31.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to make, alter, amend, and repeal regula- tions and conditions for the granting of a dealer's licence.
(2.) Such regulations or conditions may require the pro- viding by applicants of one or more sureties, may alter the scale of fees, and may regulate the times of commencement and expiry of such licences, the hours and conditions of sale, and all other matters connected with such licences. (3.) All such regulations shall be published in the Gazette in English and in Chinese.