Excise Licences Act, 1825

This Act not to prevent persons licensed to sell beer, cyder, or perry to be consumed on the premises, or retailers of spirits, wine, or sweets, from selling at fairs or races.

Removal of the licence in case of destruction of premises by fire or accident.

Publicans licences not to be removed without authority from justices.

11. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to prohibit any person or persons duly licensed to sell beer, cyder, or perry by retail, to be drank or consumed in his, her, or their house or premises, or any retailer of spirits (not being a retailer of spirits in Ireland licensed as a grocer to trade in, vend, and sell coffee, tea, cocoa nuts, chocolate, or pepper), or any retailer of foreign wine, or retailer of sweets or made wines, or of mead, or metheglin, he or she being duly licensed respectively for such respective purpose, to carry on his or her trade or business, for which he or she respectively shall be so licensed as aforesaid, in booths, tents, or other places, at the time and place and within the limits of holding any lawful and accustomed fair, by virtue of any law or statute in that behalf, or any public races; provided also, that in all cases in which the house or premises in respect of which any excise licence is or shall be granted shall be burnt down, or otherwise destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, by fire or other unavoidable cause or accident, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners and assistant commissioners of excise, or collector and supervisor, or other person or persons authorized to grant licences within the district or place in which such house or premises was or were situate, upon clue notice thereof to him or them in that behalf given, to authorize and empower, by indorsement on such licence, or otherwise, as the commissioners of excise shall direct, the person or persons authorized to carry on trade or business by such licence at the house or premises so burnt down or otherwise destroyed or rendered uninhabitable to carry on such trade or business at any other and different house or premises in the same district or place, of which due entry shall be thereupon made by such person or persons at the time of such removal thereto; provided always, that where such licensed person or persons as aforesaid shall be a person or persons by law required to be duly authorized by justices of the peace to keep a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house, it shall not be lawful for the commissioners or assistant commissioners of excise, or such collector and supervisor, or other person or persons authorized to grant licences as aforesaid, to authorize or empower such licensed person or persons as aforesaid, unless such person or persons shall, besides giving such notice as herein-before required, produce to such collector and supervisor, or other person or persons authorized to grant licences as aforesaid, such authority from justices of the peace, as by law required in that behalf, to keep a common inn, alehouse, or victual1ing house, in the house or premises to which such person or persons shall desire to remove in consequence of such fire or other unavoidable cause or accident as aforesaid.