1956

No. 36 of 1931.

DUTIABLE COMMODITIES.

Issue of temporary licence.

Restriction of right of action for liquor sold.

Retailers' signs.

Measures or weights for sale of liquor. [cf. No. 2 of 1885, s. 2 and Schedule.]

in every respect to the same regulations and conditions as the licensee.

(2) This section shall apply to brewery, distillery, publicans', adjunct, dealers', retailers' and Chinese restaurant licences.

57. The Accountant-General may, on payment of the prescribed fee, in his discretion and on such conditions as he thinks fit, issue to any holder of a publican's or adjunct licence a temporary licence for the retail sale of liquors at any public entertainment or on any public occasion.

58. No licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall maintain any action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of intoxicating liquor, unless such debt has bona fide been contracted at one time to the amount of five dollars or upwards, nor shall any item in any account for such liquor be allowed where the liquor bona fide delivered at one time does not amount to the full sum of five dollars, nor shall any claim be allowed against any member, not being an officer, of His Majesty's forces for debt for intoxicating liquor supplied: Provided that nothing herein contained shall 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 any court.

59. Every person licensed to sell liquors retail shall have his full name, the nature and number of his licence, and such other particulars as may be prescribed by regulations, painted legibly and permanently in letters at least three inches high on some conspicuous part of his licensed premises to the satisfaction of the Superintendent: and no person not so licensed shall exhibit any sign, writing, painting or other mark reasonably calculated to suggest that his premises are licensed for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors, or that such liquors are retailed or served therein.

60. Every person licensed under this Ordinance to sell liquor shall sell and dispose of his liquors by measures or weights of the standards in use 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; he shall also

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