Habitual Drunkards Act 1879

Offences by officers, servants, and other persons.

24. If any person does any of the following things,—

(1.) Ill-treats, or, being an officer, servant, or other person employed in or about a retreat, wilfully neglects, any habitual drunkard detained in a retreat;

(2.) Induces or knowingly assists an habitual drunkard detained in a retreat to escape therefrom;

(3.) Without the authority of the licensee or the medical officer of the retreat (proof whereof shall lie on him) brings into any retreat, or, without the authority of the medical officer of the retreat, except in case of urgent necessity, gives or supplies to any person detained therein, any intoxicating liquor, or sedative narcotic, or stimulant drug or preparation,

he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Act.