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APPENDIX 14.

No. 21 or 1886.

An Ordinance entitled The Spirit Licences Ordinance, 1886.

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[11th June, 1886.]

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Spirit Licences Ordinance, 1886. 2. In this ordinance, unless the context indicates the contrary

Adjunct licence shall mean the licence granted under this ordinance to hotel-keepers, restaurateurs, or confectiouers, for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors as an adjunct to their respective businesses without keeping a public bar. Adulterated liquor shall mean any liquor mixed or coloured to the prejudice of the purchaser with any ingredient whatever, or with water, either so as to increase its bulk and measure, or so as injuriously to affect the quality of such liquor, or to conceal its inferior quality, or any liquor which is not virtually of the nature and quality demanded by the purchaser, or of the liquor which it is labelled as being or purporting to be, whether such adulterated liquor be injurious to health or not. Spirits shall not be considered adulterated if mixed with water only so as not to reduce the strength more than twenty-five degrees below proof in the case of brandy, whisky or rum, or more than thirty degrees below proof in the case of gin.

Chinese spirits shall mean the intoxicating liquors commonly known as samshu. Gallon shall mean an imperial gallon, or, if the liquor be in bottles, six reputed quart

bottles, or twelve reputed pint bottles.

Grocer's licence shall mean a licence to sell intoxicating liquors by the bottle, such

liquors not to be consumed on the premises.

Intoxicating liquor shall include spirits, malt liquor, and any wine or other fermented

liquor whatever.

Pint bottle and quart bottle shail 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.

3. No person shall make, distil, or rectify any spirits, or shall knowingly keep or have in his possession any still or other utensil, or apparatus for distilling or making or rectifying spirits, without a licence under this ordinance.

It shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to issue a licence free of all charge to any apothecary, chemist, or druggist applying for the same, to keep and use on his premises, a still of not more than eight gallons contents for the purpose of his trade only, provided that every person wishing to keep such still shall notify his intention so to do to the said Colonial Secretary, who shall thereupon required such person to give a bond with two suf- ficient 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 re- quired bona 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.

Title.

Interpreta-

tion of terms.

Unlicensed distilling Frohibit-1.

(B OF 41, and 3 of 69.1

Apocheenrias. Cherises i druggists

uy have stills of eight gallons contents. [Ord. of 1944 section 3.