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SPIRIT LICENCES . [ 21 of 1886. ] 859


26. Whenever any Police officer shall find any person Drinking in
drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor shall be place.
sold or disposed of by retail , and the licence for such sale shall [11 of 44. 36. ]
not on demand be produced to such Police officer, it shall be
lawful for such Police officer to apprehend all such persons so
found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking
shall , upon conviction before any Magistrate, forfeit and pay
for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars,
unless such person shall inform against such unlicensed person
or voluntarily become аa witness against him , in respect of such
act of selling and retailing.
27. No master or other person employing journeymen, Payment of
workmen, servants , or labourers , shall pay or cause any payment (11of 44.37.)
to be made to any such journeyman, workman, or labourer in
or at any house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold by
retail .

Wholesale and Grocers' licences. Spirit shops.
28. Every person desirous of obtaining a wholesale or a Wholesale
grocer's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply to the and grocers'
Colonial Secretary, who may in his discretion grant to the el. How obtain.
applicant a licence in the form of schedule L or M according to
the nature of his application, on production of a receipt from
the Treasurer for a fee of one hundred and twenty dollars.
Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions..
29. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time Power to
to time to make, alter, amend and repeal regulations and condi- make rules.
tionsfor the granting of wholesaleand grocer's licences. Such
conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or
more sureties, may alter the above scale of fees, may regulate
the times of commencement and expiry of such licences, the
hours and conditions of sale, and all other matters connected
with such licences. All such regulations when published in
the Government Gazette shall have the force of law.
30. The Colonial Secretary may grant a licence in the form Chinese
of schedule N to any person to retail Chinese spirits , such spirit shops.
Chinese spirits not to be consumed on the premises where they 27-30.]
are sold, and the holder of such licence shall exhibit con
spicuously and permanently in front of his licensed place of
business his name and number and the nature of such licence,
on a sign, the size and design of which shall be approved by
the Colonial Secretary, and the fee of ten dollars monthly shall
be paid in advance by each licensee to the Treasurer . The
Colonial Secretary may permit the transfer of any such licence
in form of schedule. 0.