ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1886.
Spirit Licences.
5. Any person who shall distil, make, import, sell, dispose of, or deal in any adulterated intoxicating liquor shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and if such adulterated liquor be injurious to health he may, on a second conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding six months besides any other penalties to which he may be liable under this Ordinance.
No person shall be convicted under this section if he shows to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whom he is charged that he did not know that the liquor sold by him was adulterated, and that he could not have known it with any reasonable diligence.
Sale of intoxicating liquors.
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Adulterated liquors. [38 & 39 Vic. c. 63, s. 5.]
Unlicensed sale prohibit- [11 of 44, 1.]
6. No person shall sell or dispose of, or advertise or expose for sale any intoxicating liquor either by wholesale or retail within the Colony, or shall permit or suffer any such intoxicating liquor to be sold or disposed of or advertised or exposed for sale in his house or other place within the Colony without a licence under this Ordinance. The delivery of any intoxicating liquors shall be taken, in any proceeding under this Ordinance, to be primâ facie evidence that money or other consideration was given for the same.
Wholesale and retail [Sec. 11 of 44. 24.7
7. The holder of a retail or grocer's licence may also sell intoxicating liquors wholesale, but no person shall sell intoxicating liquors by retail without a licence to that effect, and this section shall apply to all retail sales of liquor to any person on pretence that he is a customer for other goods, as well as to all sales of quantities exceeding two gallons with an understanding that part is to be returned, and generally, to any act whatever which, under whatsoever pretence, constitutes a retail sale of intoxicating liquor.
8. The Colonial Secretary may at any time issue temporary licences for the sale of liquors at any public entertainment or on any public occasion on payment of such fee in each case as to the Governor shall seem fit.
Public house, and adjunct licences.
9. Every person desirous of obtaining a publican's or adjunct licence shall give ten days' notice to the Magistrates in the form of schedule B or C according to the nature of the licence required,
Temporary licences.
Application for licence. [11 of 44, 3.]