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2022 ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1886 .


Spirit Licences.


Pint bottle and quart bottle shall mean the reputed pint and quart
bottles ordinarily used in commerce.

Public house shall mean any house or place of entertainment
where intoxicating liquors are sold by retail and may be
consumed on the premises, but shall not include any place

of entertainment kept under an adjunct licence.
Retail sale shall mean the sale of liquors in less quantities than
two gallons as above defined .

Spirit shop shall mean any shop licensed to retail Chinese spirits
not to be consumed on the premises .
Wholesale licence shall mean a licence to sell intoxicating liquors.

by the unopened cask or case, in quantities not less than
two gallons of one liquor at one time , such liquors not to
be consumed on the premises .

Distilleries .

Unlicensed 3. No person shall make , distil , or rectify any spirits , or shall know
distilling pro
hibited. ingly keep or have in his possession any still or other utensil, or appa
[8 of 44, and
3 of 69.] ratus for distilling or making or rectifying spirits , without a licence under
this Ordinance.

Apothecaries, It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to issue a licence free of
chemists and
druggists all charge to any apothecary, chemist , or druggist applying for the
may have
stills of eight same, to keep and use on his premises, a still of not more than eight
gallons con
tents. gallons contents for the purpose of his trade only, provided that every
[ Ord. 8 of
1844 section person wishing to keep such still shall notify his intention so to do to the
3. ]
said Colonial Secretary, who shall thereupon require such person to give
a bond with two sufficient sureties in the sum of one thousand dollars ,
that he will not make use of such still, or suffer it to be made use of

except for the preparation of medicines or other articles required bonâ fide
for medical purposes, and every such person found to have such still

without having entered into such bond and obtained such licence , shall
be deemed to be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
Licences to 4. The Colonial Secretary may issue licences to distil in the form
distil.
[3 of 69. ] of schedule A, on each of which licences an annual fee of one hundred

and twenty dollars shall be payable in advance . Such conditions as the
Governor in Council may from time to time determine may be added to
such licences . Every licensed distiller may sell by wholesale the liquors
he distils.