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Penalties for offences in refreshment houses.
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34. Every person licensed to keep a refreshment house under this Act who shall (without a licence for that purpose) sell or permit or suffer to be sold within such refreshment house any intoxicating liquor, or shall knowingly suffer any unlawful games or gaming therein, or knowingly suffer prostitutes, thieves, or drunken and disorderly persons, or members of an unlawful society to assemble at or continue in or upon his premises, or do, suffer, or permit any act in contravention of his licence, shall, upon conviction thereof before any such justice or justices as herein-before mentioned, pay for the first offence a fine not exceeding forty shillings, for the second offence a fine not exceeding five pounds, and for every subsequent offence a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or be subject to a forfeiture of his licence, at the discretion of such justice or justices before whom he shall be convicted; and in case of such forfeiture of his licence, such person shall be disqualified for the space of one year then next ensuing from obtaining a fresh licence; and such fresh licence, if obtained within the said year, shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes.
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