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Penalty on persons delaying or refusing admittance to justice, or persons acting on justice's warrant.
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5. If any person occupying any house or place, or any person aiding or assisting such occupier, on demand made of entrance by any justice of the peace, or superintendent, inspector, or serjeant of police, sub-inspector, head or other constable respectively, and on his stating that he seeks to eater by virtue of his office as a justice of the peace, or by the authority of a warrant from a justice of the peace, (which warrant he shall produce when required so to do,) shall delay or refuse to admit such justice, superintendent, inspector, serjeant, sub-inspector, head or other constable, or his assistants respectively, into such house or place for the purpose of executing such warrant as aforesaid, such person shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding the sum of two pounds nor less than ten shillings, or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one fortnight nor less than one week, unless proof shall be made to the satisfaction of the justice or justices who may hear the complaint that there was reasonable cause for giving such delay or refusal: Provided always, that for the purpose of such conviction as last aforesaid, proof to the satisfaction of the justice who may hear the complaint that spirits were sold or kept or exposed for sale in such room, house, or place where such person was so found therein shall be sufficient evidence that no licence then existed for selling spirits, unless the contrary be proved.
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