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Licences may be annulled when licensed persons shall have offended three times in six months.
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16. So much of the said recited Act as provides that if any person licensed to sell beer, cider, or spirits by retail shall during the continuance of such licence be duly convicted of any three several offences under the provisions of said Act, or any of them, which three offences shall have been committed within the space of two months, it should and might be lawful for two justices of the peace within whose jurisdiction such person should have been licensed to annul the licence of such person, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and from and after the passing of this Act, if any person licensed to sell beer, cider, or spirits by retail shall during the continuance of such licence be duly convicted of three several offences under the provisions of said recited Act or of this Act, or of both, which three offences shall have been committed within the space of six months, it shall be lawful for two justices of the peace within whose jurisdiction such person shall be licensed, assembled at any quarter sessions or adjournment thereof, by order made in open court, after notice served six days before on the person so licensed of the intention to apply for such order, to annul the licence held by such person; and if any person whose licence shall be so annulled shall at any time after the making of such order sell any beer, cider, or spirits, without having obtained a new licence, he shall be subject to all the penalties to which any person is or may be subject for selling beer, cider, or spirits without having obtained a licence for that purpose.
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