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APPENDIX III. 



AN ACT RESPECTING THE USE OF TOBACCO 

 BY MINORS. 



[ASSENTED TO 14m APRIL, 1892.] 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Legislative Assembly, enacts as follows : 



1. Any person who either directly or indirectly sells or 

 gives, or furnishes to a minor under eighteen years of age, 

 Cigarettes, Cigars, or Tobacco in any form, shall, on summary 

 conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be subject to 

 a penalty of not less than $10, or more than $50, with or 

 without costs of prosecution, or to imprisonment, with or 

 without hard labor, for any term not exceeding thirty days, 

 or to both fine with or without costs and imprisonment to the 

 said amount and for the said term, in the discretion of the 

 convicting magistrate. 



And in case of a fine, or a fine and costs being awarded, 

 and of the same not being, upon conviction, forthwith paid, 

 the Justice may commit the offender to the Common Gaol, 

 there to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding thirty 

 days, unless the fine and costs are sooner paid. 



2. This Act shall not apply to a sale to the minor for his 

 parent or guardian, under a written request or order of the 

 parent or guardian. 



3. A person who shall appear to the Magistrate to be 

 under eighteen years of age, shall be presumed to be under 

 that age unless it is shown by evidence that ne is in fact over 

 that age. 



4. This Act shall go into effect on the 1st day of July, 1892. 



