Beer Dealers' Retail Licences (Amendment) Act, 1882

Consumption of beer off the premises.

32 & 33 Vict. c. 27.

1. Notwithstanding anything in section eight of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, or in any other Act now in force, the licensing justices shall be at liberty, in their free and unqualified discretion, either to refuse a certificate for any licence for sale of beer by retail to be consumed off the premises on any grounds appearing to them sufficient, or to grant the same to such persons as they in the execution of their statutory powers and in the exercise of their discretion deem fit and proper.