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What to be deemed refreshment houses.
Licences to be taken out for keeping the same.
Licences not required for refreshment houses in small towns and places
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6. All houses, rooms, shops, or buildings kept open for public refreshment, resort, and entertainment at any time between the hours of [1
ten] of the clock at night and seven of the clock of the following morning, not being licensed for the sale of beer, cider, wine, or spirits respectively, shall be deemed refreshment houses within this Act; and the resident, owner, tenant, or occupier thereof shall be required to take out a licence under this Act to keep a refreshment house; and every person who shall keep any house, room, shop, or building for the purpose of selling therein any victual or refreshment to be consumed on the premises where the same shall be sold (except beer, cider, wine, and spirits sold respectively under a proper licence in that behalf), and every person who shall keep any house, room, shop, or building for the consumption therein by the public of any refreshment (except as aforesaid), although the same shall not be sold therein, may, if he shall think fit, take out a licence under this Act to keep a refreshment house; and in all proceedings and upon all occasions whatever it shall be sufficient to describe by the term refreshment house any house, room, shop, or building in which any such article as aforesaid (except as aforesaid) is sold to be consumed, or is consumed as aforesaid, without further or otherwise designating or describing the same; provided also, that no licence shall be required under this Act to authorize any person to keep a refreshment house if the same shall not be situate within any town or place containing a population exceeding ten thousand according to the last Parliamentary census.
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