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Section 28, The Liquor Licensing Short title Ordinance
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(1) If, within any period when licensed premises arerequired under the provisions of this Ordinance to be closed,
any person is found on such premises, he shall, unless he satisfies
the Court that he was an inmate, a servant, or a lodger on such
premises, or that otherwise his presence on such premises was
not in contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance with
respect to the closing of licensed premises, be guilty of an offence
and liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty
shillings.
being found
on premises
after closing
time.
(2) Any constable may demand the name and address of any Demand for
person found on any licensed premises within any period when ~~:~s~nof
they are under the provisions of this Ordinance required to be person f?und
I d d ·f h h bl d h h on pre miRes
c ose an , 1 e as reasona e groun to suppose t at t e name after closing
or address given is false, may require evidence of the correctness time.
of such name and address, and may, if such person fail upon
such demand to give his name and address or to offer satisfactory
evidence of the correctness of such name and address, apprehend
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refusal to
give name
or address.
False
personation
of lodger.
permitting
drunkenness.
permitting
gaming.
Power to
exclude
drunken
persons.
him without warrant and take him as soon as practicable before
a Magistrate.
(3) Any person, required by a constable under this section
to give his name and address, who fails to give the same or gives
a false name or address or makes a false statement with respect
to such name or address, shall be guilty of an offence and liable
on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings.
(4) Any person who, by falsely representing himself to be a
lodger, buys or obtains, or attempts to buy or obtain, at any
premises any intoxicating liquor during the period when such
premises are required to be closed under the provisions of this
Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction
thereof to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
29. {I) Any licence holder who permits drunkenness, or any
violent, or quarrelsome or disorderly, or riotous conduct to take
place on his premises, or who sells any intoxicating liquor to
any drunken person, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on
conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding, for the first offence,
ten pounds, the second offence twenty pounds, and any
subsequent offence, fifty pounds. Any conviction for an offence
under this section shall be recorded on the Register of Licences.
(2) If a licence holder is charged with any contravention of
this section, and it is proved that any person was drunk or
guilty of any violent, quarrelsome, disorderly or riotous conduct
on his premises, it shall lie on the licence holder to prove that
he and the persons employed by him took all reasonable steps
for preventing drunkenness or violent, quarrelsome, disorderly
or riotous conduct, as the case may be, on the premises.
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