✨ Licensing Legislation Clauses




NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

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  1. The wholesale license shall be in the form in
    the Schedule B hereunto annexed, and shall
    authorise the holder thereof to sell and de-
    liver alcoholic liquors in quantities of not
    less than two gallons of any one description
    of liquor to one person at any one time, such
    liquors not to be consumed in or upon the
    vendor's house or premises.

  2. The publican's license shall be in the form in
    the Schedule C hereunto annexed, and shall
    authorise the holder thereof to sell and dis-
    pose of alcoholic liquors in any quantity,
    in the house or on the premises therein
    specified.

  3. No person, being the holder of a publican's
    license issued under this Act, shall be entitled
    to have in or upon the premises in respect of
    which the said license shall have been issued,
    more than one public bar for the sale of
    spirituous and fermented liquors therein;
    and any person offending against this pro-
    vision shall be held to be guilty of selling
    without a license, and liable on conviction
    thereof to a penalty of not less than five
    pounds nor more than fifty pounds.

  4. The packet license shall be in the form in
    the Schedule D hereunto annexed, and
    may be granted to the master or com-
    mander for the time being of any steam
    packet or other vessel therein mentioned,
    being a vessel making passages and carrying
    passengers from any place to any other place
    within the said Colony of New Zealand;
    and such master or commander shall be
    thereby authorised, while such packet or
    vessel is actually being navigated between
    any port or harbor or on any river or lake
    within the limits of the said Colony, to sell
    and dispose of any alcoholic liquors on board
    such packet or vessel to any bona fide
    passengers by such packet or vessel.

  5. The Provincial Treasurer of any province, or
    if there shall be no such person, then any other
    person or persons appointed by the Gover-
    nor, may and shall issue to any person a
    wholesale license for any house or premises
    within any town or borough, or in any
    licensing district, on production of a certifi-
    cate from any Licensing Court held under
    this Act. Applications for wholesale licenses
    shall be lodged with the Clerk of the Court
    at the same time and in the same manner as
    hereinafter provided for the application for
    and granting of certificates for publicans'
    licenses; but no certificate of householders
    shall be necessary in the case of wholesale
    licenses or steam packet licenses: Provided
    always that in any province where such
    license fees have been made portion of
    municipal revenue, any person authorised by
    any such Municipality shall have power to
    issue such licenses on the production of such
    certificate as aforesaid.

  6. Every person who shall desire to obtain a
    publican's or bush license or the renewal of
    one under this Act shall, on or before the
    first Tuesday in the month of March in
    every year, cause to be delivered to the
    Clerk of the Resident Magistrate of the
    district a notice in writing signed by him, in
    the form in Schedule E hereunto annexed,
    accompanied by a certificate signed by at
    least ten householders of the district, in the
    form contained in Schedule E hereunto
    appended.

  7. On the third Tuesday in the month of April
    following, or on some day to be fixed by the
    Resident Magistrate as soon thereafter as
    conveniently may be, there shall be holden
    at the office of the Resident Magistrate, or
    other place appointed by him, a Court to be
    called the Annual Licensing Court, for the
    purpose of taking into consideration applica-
    tions for certificates.

Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
February 21, 1874.

THE following Clauses of "The Licensing Law
Amendment Act, 1874," of the Provincial Coun-
coun-
cil are published for general information.

ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.

CLAUSES.

  1. The fees payable in respect of Wholesale
    Licenses and Packet Licenses issued under
    the said Act shall be for each Wholesale
    License ten pounds and for each Packet
    License ten pounds.

  2. The Annual Licensing Court of the District
    may grant to any person a certificate author-
    ising the issue of a license to be called an
    "Accommodation License" which shall
    authorise the sale by the person named there-
    in of alcoholic liquors in any house within
    the Province therein specified and such
    license may be granted on the terms of re-
    pairing or keeping in repair the roads or
    bridges adjacent to such house keeping a
    ferry or providing good accommodation for
    travellers or on such of the former or such
    other terms as the Annual Licensing Court
    shall think fit including the payment of a
    fee not exceeding twenty pounds to be fixed
    by the Court and every applicant for any
    such license shall on making his appli-
    cation to the Court present to the Court a
    written statement signed by the Superin-
    tendent of the terms and the fee the Super-
    intendent and his Executive Council recom-
    mend to be imposed by the Court in respect
    of such license.




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  • Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary