Licensing Act (Ireland) 1874

Evidence of licenses, orders, and convictions.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 93

35. Every entry in any register of licenses of any license excise license, wholesale beer dealer's license, certificate, or exemption order, and of any conviction ordered to be recorded on a license or on an excise license, shall for every purpose be evidence of such license, excise license, wholesale beer dealer's license, certificate, exemption order, and conviction respectively, and every entry in any book kept in a police court or in any petty sessions order book of any conviction or order under the principal Act or this Act, or either of them, and any copy of such entry purporting in every such case (except that of a petty sessions order book) to be signed and certified as a true copy by the person to whose custody such register or book is intrusted, and in the case of a petty sessions order book purporting to be certified by a justice of the peace, pursuant to the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, section twenty-one, and Form (I a) in the schedule thereto, shall for every purpose be evidence of such conviction and order respectively; and any such entry or any such copy of such entry of a conviction ordered to be recorded on a license or excise license, which license or excise license shall not be produced when required by any recorder, court of quarter sessions, divisional justice, or justice of the peace, shall be conclusive evidence that such conviction was duly recorded on such license or excise license.