&c. by retail, the intoxicating liquor seized is to be forfeited with the vessels containing it, and any person found on the premises at the time of the seizure is prima facie to be deemed to have been there for the purpose of illegally dealing in intoxicating liquor. 16. Occasional licences are required for selling intoxicating liquor at fairs and races. 17. An occasional licence may authorize the sale of beer, &c. from such hour after sunrise to such hour not later than ten o'clock at night, as the licensing justice may specify. 18. With regard to offences against public order, no distinction is to be made between occasional and other licences. 19. A deficiency in the quota of borough justices qualified to form a joint committee for the borough is to be supplied by qualified county justices. 20. Any one interested in premises about to be constructed or in course of construction may obtain a provisional grant and confirmation of a licence for the premises, but these are not to be valid until made final after completion of the premises, and after due notice. These regulations apply to a provisional removal to other premises. 21. Separate justices' licences are not to be required, in case of separate excise licences. 22. Licences for consumption off the premises are not to require confirmation. 23. A joint committee may make rules as to proceedings for the confirmation of new licences. 24. On application for renewal of a licence, personal attendance is not to be required, unless for special reason, in which case only notice of adjournment of the general licensing meeting need be served on the applicant. Notices of intention to oppose a renewal are to state the grounds of opposition. 25. There is to be no appeal to quarter sessions as to grants of new certificates under the Wine and Beerhouse Acts, 1869 and 1870. 26. The licensing justices, instead of the commissioners of inland revenue, are to direct the form, &c. of the notice to be fixed on licensed premises. 27. Any one possessing an interest in licensed premises may be registered as an owner thereof. 28. Licensed persons are not to be liable to penalties for supplying liquor to private friends without charge. 29. A retail licence to sell beer for consumption off the premises may be granted at special sessions to a holder of a strong beer dealer's wholesale excise licence. 30. Definitions are given of "metropolitan district," "town," "populous place," "occasional licence" and "new licence," the second and last being alterations. 31. The following sections of the Act of 1872 are repealed, viz. sections 19-22, 24, 35, and parts of sections 5, 6, 13, 14, 16, 17, 28, 56 and 74. and certifi must now from the Besides the licences grantable by justices for The licences certain special occasions (some of which are not cates which within the new acts), the orders exempting the be obtained holder from certain provisions as to the hours of magistrates. closing his premises (which are obtained in the metropolis from the police authorities, and in the country from the justices in petty sessions), the six-day or week-day licence and the early-closing licence, licences or certificates for the following purposes must now, by virtue of the joint provisions of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 27, s. 4, and the Licensing Act, 1872, be obtained from the licensing justices before the revenue licence is granted:- 1. Alehouses. A licence to sell exciseable liquors All liquors. by retail to be consumed on or off the premises (9 Geo. 4, c. 61, s. 1). 2 and 3. Beerhouses. A certificate to sell beer to be Beer. (1 Will. 4, c. 64, ss. 1, 2; 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 85, 4. Cider Licence. A certificate to sell cider by retail Cider. 5. Confectioners being licensed by the Excise to Wine. Wine. Wine. Sweets. Bottled beer. Spirits and liqueurs. Table beer. Coffee-house keepers. 6. Eating-house Keepers. Same certificate as No. 5, when licensed to keep a refreshment-house (23 Vict. c. 27, s. 7). 7. Grocers and other Shopkeepers,—or those who are licensed dealers in wine. A licence to sell in bottles only foreign wine not to be consumed on the premises (23 Vict. c. 27, s. 3). For spirits also, see No. 10; sweets, No. 8. 8. Sweets. A licence for the sale of sweets or made wines, as if wine (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94, s. 74). See also Nos. 5, 6, 7. 9. Bottled Beer. A certificate for sale of, by holders of strong beer licences, not to be consumed on the premises (26 & 27 Vict. c. 33, s. 1; 33 & 34 Vict. c. 29, s. 10, and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 49, s. 31). 10. Spirits and Liqueurs. A certificate to licensed dealers in spirits to retail spirits or liqueurs in bottles (24 & 25 Vict. c. 21, s. 2),—or to persons holding a wholesale spirit dealer's licence (whose premises are not exclusively used for the sale of intoxicating liquors, 35 & 36 Vict. c. 94, s. 68), to sell liqueurs or spirits by retail (s. 69), -in both cases not to be consumed on the premises. 11. Table Beer. A certificate for sale of, not to be consumed on the premises (24 & 25 Vict. c. 21, s. 3). It should be mentioned that coffee-house keepers not having a beer licence do not come within the operation of any act if they close their premises between 10 P.M. and 5 A.M.; if they do not then close, the houses are commonly called night- Chapter I. 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