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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 S.L.-VoL. IV-39* 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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