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Power to search suspected premises.
Drinking in unlicensed place.
Prohibition of payment of journeyman, etc., at place
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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 liquors in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.
25. If any person is convicted of unlawfully retailing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person, and the house, lodge, 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 warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof is then occupied by the person so convicted.
26. Whenever any Police officer finds any person drinking in a 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 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 voluntarily becomes a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
27. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, and not being the licensed keeper of the house hereinafter mentioned, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer in or at any house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold by retail.
where liquor is sold.
Issue of wholesale and grocer's licences.
28.—(1.) Every person desirous of obtaining a wholesale licence or grocer's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply to the Colonial Secretary, who may, in his discretion, grant to the applicant a licence in the Form No. 12 or the Form No. 13 in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, according to the nature of his application, on production of a receipt from the Colonial Treasurer for the appropriate fee specified in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance.
First Schedule and 13. Second Schedule.
(2.) Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.
29.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to make, alter, amend, and repeal regulations and conditions for the granting of wholesale and grocers' licences, and dealers' licences.
(2.) Such regulations or conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or more sureties, may alter the scale of fees, may...
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