Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860

Confectioners and eating-house keepers entitled to take out licences to sell foreign wine to be drunk on the premises.

7. Every person who shall be licensed to keep a refreshment house, and shall pursue therein the trade or business of a confectioner, or shall keep open such house as an eating-house, for the purpose of selling, to be consumed therein, animal food or other victuals wherewith wine or other fermented liquors are usually drunk, shall be entitled (subject to the terms and conditions of this Act, and not being expressly disqualified thereby), to take out a licence to sell foreign wine by retail in such refreshment house, to be consumed on the premises where the same shall have been sold, without producing or having any other licence or authority than as aforesaid; and every confectioner and eating-house keeper respectively, who shall have taken out such licence to retail wine under this Act, shall not be subject or liable to any penalty or forfeiture under any other Act or Acts by reason or on account of his selling wine by retail, or having the same in his possession in his entered premises, anything in any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.