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Section 46, The Liquor Licensing Short title Ordinance

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(1) Any constable may, for the purpose of preventingor detecting the violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, enter at all times on any licensed premises. (2) Every person who, by himself, or by any person in his employ, or acting by his direction, or with his consent, fails to admit or obstructs any constable in the execution of his duty demanding to enter in pursuance of this section, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding, for the first offence, five pounds, and not exceeding, for the second and any subsequent offence, twenty pounds. 47. {l) A Justice of the Peace or District Commissioner, if satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground to believe that any intoxicating liquor is sold or bartered or exposed or kept for sale or barter at any place within his jurisdiction, whether a building or not, in which such liquor is not authorised to be sold, may in his discretion grant a warrant, in the form given in Schedule G, under his hand, by virtue whereof it shall be lawful for any constable, at any time or times between such hours as may be specified in the warrant and within one month from the date thereof, to enter, if need be by force, the place named in the warrant and every part thereof, and examine the same and search for inxoticating liquor therein, and seize and remove all intoYicating liquor found therein, which there is reasonable ground to suppose is in such place for the purpose of unlawful sale or barter at that or any other place and the vessels containing such liquor; and in the event of the owner or occupier of such premises being convicted of selling, bartering, or exposing, or keeping for sale or barter any liquor which he is not authorised to sell, the intoxicating liquor so seized and the vessels containing such liquor shall be forfeited to Her Majesty. (2) When a constable has entered any premises in pursuance of any such warrant, and has seized and removed such liquor, any person found at the time on the premises shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been on such premises for the purpose of illegally dealing in intoxicating liquor, and be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds. (3) Any constable may demand the name and address of any of any person found on any premises on which he seizes, or from which he removes, any liquor as in this section provided, and if he has reasonable ground to suppose that the name or address given is false, may require evidence of the correctness of such name and address, and may if such person fail upon such demand to give his name or address or to offer satisfactory evidence of the correctness of such name and address, apprehend him without warrant and take him as soon as practicable before a Magistrate. (4) 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 five pounds.

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