Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860

Wine licences not to be granted for refreshment houses under a certain annual value, &c.

Persons disqualified to hold wine licences.

8. Provided always, that no licence to sell foreign wine by retail to be consumed on the premises shall be granted for any refreshment house which, with the premises belonging thereto and occupied therewith, shall be under the value of eight pounds a year, nor for any refreshment house situated in any city, borough, town, or place containing a population exceeding ten thousand according to the then last Parliamentary census, if such refreshment house, with the premises belonging thereto and occupied therewith, shall be under the value of fifteen pounds a year; and no sheriff's officer, clerk of petty sessions, or officer executing the legal process of any court of justice, shall be capable of receiving or using any licence under this Act to sell wine by retail to be consumed on the premises; and every licence which shall be granted contrary hereto shall be void to all intents and purposes.