Excise Licences Act, 1825

No licence to be granted for selling beer or cyder by retail, to be consumed on the premises, without a certificate from justices.

13. No excise licence shall be granted under or by authority of this Act, for the sale of any beer, or cyder or perry, by retail, to be drank or consumed upon the house or premises of the person or persons applying for such licence, to any person or persons who shall not produce at the time of applying for such licence a certificate or authority then in force, to him, her, or them in that behalf granted in due form of law by justices of the peace or magistrates, or other competent persons, for such person or persons applying for such licences as aforesaid to keep a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house; and if any such licence shall be granted to any person or persons other than as aforesaid, the same shall be and is hereby declared to be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes, and the person or persons taking out the same shall be subject to all penalty or penalties to which he, she, or they would have been subject had no such licence been granted.