(3AM1NG HOUSES. 



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opened for the sale of liquors ; and during the hours that 

 play is prohibited, every licensed house and every billiard 

 room in every licensed victualler's must be closed (.s). 



A licensed victualler who allows his lodgers to play 

 billiards during closing hours is liable to conviction for so 

 doing, notwithstanding the provisions of 37 & 38 Vict. 

 c. 49, s. 10, to the effect that such a person may sell 

 intoxicating liquor at any time to persons lodging in his 

 house (t). 



All constables and officers of police may enter any public Constables 

 billiard room, &c. when and so often as they think fit, and ^ifeused 

 the non-compliance with these regulations is to be deemed houses. 

 an offence against the tenor of the keeper's licence (u). 



The Licensing Act, 1872 (x), s. 75, contains a proviso 

 that, " in the case of persons intending to apply for 

 billiard licences under 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, or for the transfer 

 of such licences, the same notices shall be given as are by 

 this Act required in the case of licences as defined by this 

 Act, or as near thereto as circumstances admit ; and any 

 person convicted of an offence against the tenor of a billiard 

 licence, or of any offence declared by the last-mentioned 

 Act to be an offence against the tenor of a licence as defined 

 by this Act, shaU be punished under this Act in the same 

 manner in all respects as a licensed person within the 

 meaning of this Act is punishable under this Act for suffer- 

 ing any gaming or unlawful game to be carried on on his 

 premises ; and in construing the last-mentioned Act any 

 reference to the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act, 1828, 

 shall be construed to refer to that Act as amended by this 

 Act." 



Application 

 of Lioensiag 

 Act, 1872. 



(i) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 13. 

 (i) Onendeti v. Haymond, 34 L. T. 

 N. S. 698. 



{u) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 14, 

 Appendix. 



(;;;) 35 & 36 Vict. c. 94. 



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