Final report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation and administration of the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Liquor Licensing Laws
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Final report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation and administration of the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![The justices or magistrates have power to make general regulations, as they shall think fit, to which such special permissions shall be subject. When the sale is elsewhere than on the licensed premises, an occasional license has to be taken out from the excise. ii. Special Regulations. Special regulations are in force in many places. A very common provision is, that applications should be made only on a specified form, to be procured from the clerk of the peace or the police, thus ensuring some Vol. V., kind of notice, whereas in seme places a certain amount of notice is required, e.g., in P- 228- Berwickshire, 6 days; Haddingtonshire, 6; Selkirk county, 4; Aberdeenshire, 4; and so on. Limitation of hours is laid down, e.g., Perthshire, not beyond 3 a.m. ; St. Andrews, 2 a.m. in the case of balls, &c. If a justice in Clackmannan, and other localities, refuses the application, he must write refuse' across the application, thereby precluding another justice from granting the permission asked for. Under some regulations the nature of the enter- tainment must be denned (Paisley), and in Haddington county the provision is inserted that a sufficient supply of food and non-intoxicating drinks be provided at reasonable prices. iii. Complaints. It is complained that in Aberdeen special licenses are granted too freely under the Wyness, Act, and that picnics and social gatherings for which they are granted are not such as 45,426. the Legislation contemplated. The young of both sexes are thus led into drunkenness. In the county of Banff they are obtained, and without any restriction of hours, for naif displenish sales, which are not proper occasions for their grant. 55,954. Mr. Lewis questions the practice in Edinburgh, and asserts that these licenses are Lewis, granted by one acting magistrate, and not as provided for in the Act. 50,378. Mr. Irons also speaks of the laxity with which they are granted in Edinburgh, as 5^'on^' compared with Leith. 50 An abuse is mentioned in Perth, where it is stated that a committee, say of a cricket club, purchase liquor in considerable quantities, sell it by retail on the ground to their Wright, own members, who bring in their friends, a good annual profit being thus obtained. si 868* The Perth magistrates have tried to charge special fees for their licenses, increasing 52,011. as the hours are extended, but they have been advised that this is not legal. The power to make regulations should be maintained, but while we loubt whether a further definition of special occasions is possible, we would suggest— (i.) That special permissions should be granted] only in open court; refusal to be final. (ii.) That 6 days' notice should be required. CHAPTER XI. SERVING CHILDREN. _ By the terms of the certificate no child under the age of 14 can be served with 25 & 20 Vict, liquor for its own consumption; but children are allowed as messengers—if messengers °' of an adult-—though it has been held that a child messenger frequently going for drink lX> 10 es' establishes a kind of use and wont/' and that no special inquiry is needed in that case, whether he is messenger of an adult or otherwise. 13 S.L.R. Though it appears from the decisions (see Donaldson v. Linton) that the burden of 163, proof is on the accused to show that the child was a messenger, yet the loopholes are ^Havd so large that, as Captain McIIardy asserts, it is as easy as possible for children to 47,755^' obtain liquor under the guise of messengers. 47,758.'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21365027_0221.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
