Intoxicating Liquors (Ireland) Act, 1815

Penalty on persons paying workmen, &c. in public houses.

65. No person in Ireland employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, shall by himself or herself, or by any other person, pay any journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer, employed by him or her, the whole or any part of the wages due to such journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer in or at any house in which any spirituous liquors, wine, beer, ale, porter, or cyder, or perry, metheglin, or mead shall be sold by retail; and every person so offending shall for every such offence, upon being convicted thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace, forfeit the sum of ten pounds British currency, and all payments of all wages made in manner aforesaid shall be null and void.