Beer Dealers' Retail Licences (Amendment) Act, 1882

BEER DEALERS' RETAIL LICENCES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1882

CHAPTER XXXIV.

An Act to amend “The Beer Dealers’ Retail Licences Act, 1880.” [10th August 1882.]

[Preamble recites 43 Vict. c. 6.]

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.

Certificates at annual licensing meetings only.

2. Certificates for any such licences as aforesaid shall, not withstanding anything in any Act now in force, be granted at general annual licensing meetings, and not at any other time.

Short title; extent; and construction.

35 & 36 Vict. c. 94.

3. This Act may be cited as the Beer Dealers’ Retail Licences (Amendment) Act, 1882; and shall not extend to Scotland; and words therein have the same meaning as in the Licensing Act, 1872.