Intoxicating Liquors Act 1855
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1855 c. 118 |
| Year | 1855 |
(18 & 19 Vict.) C A P. CXVIII.
[14th August 1855]
'WHEREAS the Act now in force for further regulating the Sale of fermented and distilled Liquors on the Lord's Day has been found to be attended with Inconvenience to the Public:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I & 18 Vict. c. 79. repealed.
I. That the Act of Parliament passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituledAn Act for further regulating the Sale of Beer and other Liquors on the Lord's Day , be and the same is hereby repealed.
II Licensed Victuallers prohibited from opening Houses for Sale of Beer, &c. during certain Hours of Sunday, &c.
II. It shall not be lawful for any Licensed Victualler, or Person licensed to sell Beer by Retail, to be drunk on the Premises, or not to be drunk on the Premises, or any Person licensed or authorized to sell any fermented or distilled Liquors, or any Person who by reason of the Freedom of the Mystery or Craft of Vintners of the City ofLondon , or of any Right or Privilege, shall claim to be entitled to sell Wine by Retail, to be drank or consumed on the Premises, in any Part of England or Wales , to open or keep open his House for the Sale of or to sell Beer, Wine, Spirits, or any other fermented or distilled Liquor between the Hours of Three and Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, nor after Eleven o'Clock in the Afternoon on Sunday , or on Christmas Day , or Good Friday , or any Day appointed for a Public Fast or Thanksgiving, or before Four o'Clock in the Morning of the Day following such Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday , or such Days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving, except to a Traveller or to a Lodger therein.
III Houses of public Resort prohibited being opened for Sale...
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