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Wine Licences. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS; the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Intoxicating Liquors,' and Paterson on Licensing....
Intoxicating liquor
Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which contain alcohol. Liquor should not only cover alcoholic liquor which is generally used for beverage purposes wand produce intoxication but would also include liquids containing alcohol, State of U.P. v. Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd., AIR 1980 SC 614: (1980) 2 SCR 531: (1980) 2 SCC 441. [Constitution of India, List II, 7th Sch., Entry 8]See also Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1990) 1 SCC 109.Intoxicating liquors. The sale of intoxicating liquors by retail in England and Wales is now mainly regulated by the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), which repealed (see Sched. VII.) the whole or part of thirteen earlier Acts. The effect of this statute is shortly as follows:-1. Grant of Licence.--Defining 'intoxicating liquor' as meaning 'spirits, wine, beer, porter, cider, perry, and sweets, and any fermented, di...
Refreshment House
Refreshment House, a house, etc., 'kept open for public refreshment, resort, and entertainment between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.' (24 & 25 Vict.c. 91, s. 8), to keep which an Inland Revenue licence only is required, unless wine, etc., be sold therein, in which case a licence from the justices of the peace is required also. See also (English) Refreshment Houses Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 27), and 39 & 40 Vict. c. 16, s. 4, as to wine licences and subsequent (English) Licensing Acts, and 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24, s. 1, as to the certificates of justices. See PUBLIC-HOUSE CLOSING ACT; Chit. Stat., tit. 'Refreshment House....
Local taxation licences
Local taxation licences. Licences to sell intoxicating liquors, etc., to keep dogs, guns, carriage, etc., and to trade as horse dealers, pawnbrokers, etc.; the proceeds of the duties are transferred to county councils for their county funds by s. 20 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. A full list of the licences is given in Sched. I. of the Act.By s. 6 of the (English) Finance Act, 1908, power is given to levy the duties on certain of these licences, namely, dealing in game, killing game, guns, dogs, armorial bearings, and (formerly) male servants...
Music and dancing licences
Music and dancing licences.--The grant of these in London and Westminster and within twenty miles thereof, including the administrative county of (English) Middlesex (Music and Dancing Licences (Middlesex) Act, 1894), is regulated by the (Eng-lish) Public Entertainment Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), which enacted that any house kept for public dancing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, without a licence from justices, is to be deemed a disorderly house; see (English) Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act, 1926 (16 & 17Geo. 5, c. 31); and by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which transferred the licensing powers from justices to the London County Council. For Sunday entertainments, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51).Various local Act in large towns (see Geary on the Law of Public Entertainments) regulate music-halls, etc., somewhat similarly; and the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, substitutes the county counc...
Liquor licences
Liquor licences. A duty is payable in respect of licences for the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor (see INTOXICATING LIQUORS). The (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, very largely increased these duties, and for a publican's licence and a beerhouse licence a duty of half and a third of the annual value of the licensed premises is payable respectively....
Licencing authority
Licencing authority, means such officer or authority as may be specified by the State Government to be the licensing authority for the purposes of this Act. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(g)]...
Wine, Adulteration of
Wine, Adulteration of, an offence against public health, formerly punished with the forfeiture of 100l. if done by the wholesale merchant, and 40l. if done by the vintner or retail trader, 12 Car. 2, c. 25, s. 11, repealed by the (English) Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125). See ADULTERATION.As to misdescription of 'Port' wine and Maderia, see 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 1, and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 39....
Lager wine
Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar...
Driving licence
Driving licence, means the licence issued by a competent authority under Chapter II authorising the person specified therein to drive, otherwise than as a learner, a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle of any specified class or description. [The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (10)]A person would be regarded as being duly licenced only if he has obtained a licence under Chapter II of the Motor Vehicles Act and a person who has obtained a temporary licence which enables him to learn driving cannot be regarded as having been duly licenced, New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Mandar Madhan Tambe, (1996) 2 SCC 328. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (4 of 1939), s. 2(5A)]...
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