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Hours for opening and closing houses licensed for the sale of wine by reatail.
Exception in favour of lodgers in refreshment houses.
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29. No person licensed under this Act to sell wine by retail shall have or keep his house open for the sale of wine, nor shall sell any wine, nor shall suffer any wine to be drunk or consumed in or at such house at any time before the hour of seven of the clock in the morning, nor after eleven of the clock at night, of any day in the week within the police district of Dublin Metropolis; nor after eleven of the clock at night within any city, town corporate, or place, the population of which, according to the last Parliamentary census, shall exceed two thousand five hundred, or within one mile, to be measured as aforesaid, from any polling place used at the last election for any town having a like population, and returning a member or members to Parliament; nor after ten of the clock at night elsewhere; nor shall any such house be open for the sale or consumption therein of any article whatever at any time during which houses licensed for the sale of spirits, wine, beer, ale, cider, or perry, are or hereafter shall be closed on any Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving; nor at any time between the hours of one and four of the clock in the morning on any day whatever; and if any person licensed as aforesaid shall keep his house open for selling or shall sell any wine, or suffer any wine to be drunk or consumed in or at such house, at any other time than as hereinbefore prescribed and directed, or shall keep his house open as aforesaid, contrary to any prohibition in this clause contained, he shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings for every offence; and every separate sale shall be deemed a separate offence: Provided always, that nothing in this clause contained shall extend to prevent the keeper of a refreshment house, being duly licensed to retail wine, from selling to any lodger therein any wine at any hour of the day or night, either on Sunday or any other day.
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