ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1886 . 2023
Spirit Licences.
Adulterated
5. Any person who shall distil , make, import , sell , dispose of, or
liquors.
deal in any adulterated intoxicating liquor shall be guilty of an offence [38 & 39 Vic.
č. 63, s. 5. ]
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.
6. No person shall sell or dispose of, or advertise or expose for sale Unlicensed
sale prohibit
any intoxicating liquor either by wholesale or retail within the Colony, ed.
[11 of 44. 1. ]
or shall permit or suffer any such intoxicating liquor to be sold or dis
posed 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.
7. The holder of a retail or grocer's licence may also sell intoxica Wholesale
and retail
ting liquors wholesale, but no person shall sell intoxicating liquors by ale.
[See. 11 of 44.
retail without a licence to that effect, and this section shall apply to all 21.1
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 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 Application
for licence.
shall give ten days ' notice to the Magistrates in the form of schedule B or [11 of 44. 3. ]
Caccording to the nature of the licence required .