Sale of Spirituous Liquors, etc. (Ireland) Act 1813
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1813 c. 137 |
| Year | 1813 |
(53 Geo. 3) C A P. CXXXVII.
[13th July 1813]
'WHEREAS by an Act made in the Forty fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituledAn Act for regulating Licences for the Sale of Spirituous Liquors, Wine, Beer, Ale and Cyder byRetail; and for discouraging the immoderate Use of Spirituous Liquors in Ireland, it is, amongst other things, enacted, that no Person shall be capable of receiving a Licence to sell Spirituous Liquors, Wine, Beer, Ale or Cyder by Retail, who shall not previously take and subscribe an Oath, among other things, that he or she will not permit or suffer to be sold in any House, Building, Out House, Tent, Field or other Place, for his or her Account or Prosit (during the Continuance of the Licence), any Spirituous Liquors which shall not have been duly and legally permitted, and attended with proper Permits, to him or her, and which shall not, to the best of his or her Knowledge or Belief, have paid the full Duties due thereon to His Majesty;' Be it enacted by the King'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, That, from and after the passing of this Act, every Person requiring any such Licence shallmake, take and subscribe that Part of the Oath hereinbefore specified, in the Presence of One Justice of the Peace, and the Collector, Inspector General or the Surveyor of Excise in the District within which such Person shall require to be licenced; and such Justice, and such Surveyor, Inspector General or Collector, as the case may be, shall attest such Affidavit; and that every Person who shall require any such Licence, shall produce, to the Distributor of Stamps, or other Officer or Person who is or shall be empowered by Law or appointed to grant such Licence, such Affidavit, signed and subscribed by such Person, and attested as aforesaid, and shall leave the same with such Distributor of Stamps, or other Officer who shall transmit the same, when required, to the Commissioners of Inland Excise and Taxes; and if any Distributor of Stamps, or other Officer, shall grant or issue any such Licence to any Person who shall not produce to and leave with him such Affidavit so made and signed and attested as aforesaid, such Distributor of Stamps, or other Officer, shall forfeit theSum of Twenty Pounds to any Person who will sue or prosecute for the same, such Penalty or Forfeiture to be levied and recovered as any Penalty of the like Amount may be recovered and levied under and by virtue of the said recited Act of the Forty fifth Year, or under or by virtue of an Act, made in the Forty seventh Year ofHis present Majesty's Reign, intituledAn Act to make further Regulations with respect to Licences for the Sale of Spirituous and other Liquors by Retail in Ireland; and such Licence shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be null and void to all Intents and Purposes; and the Person whose Licence shall so become null and void, shall be deemed an unlicensed Retailer of Spirituous Liquors, and shall be subject to such Penalties, Forfeitures and Disabilities, as Retailers of Spirituous Liquors without Licence are subject to.
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