Intoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Act 1886

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1886 c. 56
Year1886


Intoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Act, 1886

(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 56.

An Act for the Protection of Children against the Sale to them of Intoxicating Liquors.

[25th June 1886]

W HEREAS it is expedient to protect young children against the immoral consequences resulting from their being permitted to purchase intoxicating liquors for their own consumption:

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:

S-1 Sale of liquors to children to be illegal.

1 Sale of liquors to children to be illegal.

1. Every holder of a licence who knowingly sells, or allows any person to sell, any description of intoxicating liquors to any person under the age of thirteen years for consumption on the premises by any person under such age as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for the first offence, and not exceeding forty shillings for the second and any subsequent offence.

S-2 Legal proceedings to follow the Licensing Acts, 1872-1874.

2 Legal proceedings to follow the Licensing Acts, 1872-1874.

2. For the purposes of all legal proceedings require to be taken under the foregoing section, this Act shall be construed as one act with the Licensing Acts, 1872-1874.

S-3 Extent of Act.

3 Extent of Act.

3. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.

S-4 Short title.

4 Short title.

4. This Act may be cited for all purposes as theIntoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Act, 1886.

S-5 Commencement of Act.

5 Commencement of Act.

5. This Act shall come into operation on the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

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