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(2) The fee for every such permit shall be ten dollars payable in advance.

(3) During the period for which any such permit is issued the person to whom it is issued shall be deemed to be a licensed person for the purposes of this Ordinance.

7. Section 18 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is repealed Substitution and the following section substituted therefor :-

for

Ordinance

No. 36 of 1931, s. 18.

18.-(1) The Board may, in their discretion and subject Transfer to the payment of the fee specified in the Second Schedule, on of licence. good cause shewn direct the transfer, in respect of the same Second premises, of any publican's or adjunct licence to some other Schedule. person, such person making a like application as if applying for a new licence on his own behalf. A note of any such transfer shall be endorsed by the Treasurer upon the licence.

(2) The Board may, in their discretion and on its being proved to their satisfaction that the holder of any publican's or adjunct licence has committed a breach of any term or con- dition of his licence, and whether such holder has been con- victed of such breach or not, direct the cancellation of such licence.

(3) An applicant for a transfer under sub-section (1) and a licensee whose licence is directed to be cancelled under sub-section (2) or, in either case, twenty householders resid- ing within a radius of a quarter of a mile from the licensed premises concerned shall be entitled to appeal to the Governor in Council in respect of any decision of the Board under this section.

Substitution

8. Paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 22 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is repealed and the following for Ordin- paragraph is substituted :---

(a) No liquor shall be sold or drunk on any licensed premises except between such hours as may be prescribed by the conditions of the licence.

ance No. 36 of 1931. s. 22 (1) (a).

Amendment

9. Section 61 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is amended by the insertion of the words "Save as provided by section 4" of Ordinance at the beginning thereof.

Objects and Reasons.

1. When the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, was submitted to the Secretary of State, he suggested in his dispatch of the 1st. April, 1932, that certain minor amendments were desirable when a suitable opportunity of amending the Ordinance. occurred. These are dealt with in Clauses 2, 4, 5 and 9 of this Bill.

2. Clause 2 inserts in section 2 of the principal Ordinance a definition of "distillery licence" which has been drafted after consultation with the Superintendent of Imports and Exports. Clause 2 also amends the definition of "Hotel Keeper's adjunct licence" to conform more closely with the definition of "Restaurant adjunct licence" and to enable holders of Hotel Keeper's adjunct licences to sell liquor to non-residents in conjunction with any bonâ fide meal, and not merely, as hitherto, in conjunction with the regular meals of the establishment.

No. 36 of 1931, s. 61,