Licensing (Ireland) Act, 1836

Penalty on delaying to admit justices.

11. If any person selling or licensed to sell spirits, wine, or beer by retail shall, on demand made of entrance, delay to admit any justice, or chief or other constable, churchwarden, or overseer as aforesaid, into any house or place of such person, for the purpose of making such search as aforesaid, or for any other purpose for which by this Act or any other law in force in Ireland such justice, chief or other constable, churchwarden, or overseer is or may be entitled to admittance into such house or place, such person so offending shall forfeit and lose a sum not exceeding the sum of two pounds, unless proof shall be made, to the satisfaction of two justices who may hear the complaint, that there was reasonable cause for giving such delay.