Sale of Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) Act 1878
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1878 c. 72 |
| Year | 1878 |
Sale of Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) Act, 1878
(41 & 42 Vict.) CHAPTER 72.
An Act to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday in Ireland.
[16th August 1878]
W HEREAS the sale of intoxicating liquors in Ireland is prohibited during certain hours on Sunday, and it will be for the public benefit to extend such prohibition, save in the places herein-after mentioned, to the whole of that day, and with a view to such extension otherwise to amend the law regulating licensed houses in the manner by this Act provided:
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:
1 Extension of Acts prohibiting sale of intoxicating liquors to the whole of Sunday, with certain exceptions.
1. All the provisions of any Act now in force whereby the sale or exposing for sale of intoxicating liquors, or the opening or keeping open of any premises for the sale of intoxicating liquors, is prohibited during any hours or times on Sunday, are hereby extended to the whole of Sunday in all places except the following; (that is to say,) within the Metropolitan Police District of Dublin Metropolis, and within the cities of Cork, Limerick, and Waterford, and the town of Belfast; and within the said police district and within the said cities and town the said hours or times are hereby extended, and shall be as follows, that is to say, up to the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, and after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening on Sunday.
2 Penalties for selling of intoxicating liquors during prohibited hours extended to whole of Sunday.
2. All penalties now in force under the provisions of any Act for selling or exposing for sale, or purchasing, or opening, or keeping open any premises for the sale of intoxicating liquors, or being present in or upon any such premises during any hours or times on Sunday, and all provisions of any Acts now in force in reference to such penalties, are hereby extended to any violation of the provisions of this Act.
3 Exemptions.
3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to sales of intoxicating liquor to lodgers, or to the sale...
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