Public House Ordinance amendment (1857) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALT A.

ANNO VICESIMO-PRIMO VICTORIE REGIME.

No. VI.

An Ordinance to amend the " Public House

Ordinance, 1856".

HEREAS an Ordinance was passed in the 20th year of the consolidating and amending the laws relating to the licensing ofWreign of Her present Majesty, entitled " An Ordinance for Public Houses, and for further regulating the sale and consumption

tralia ; and also for extending the powers of Justices with respect

of Fermented and Spirituous Liquors in the colony of Western Aus- Preamble.

to drunkenness? in which persons holding a Conditional Pardon for any criminal offence are excluded from the possession of Pub- licans' and other licenses ; and whereas it is found expedient to ex- tend to conditional-pardon men the same privileges as are enjoyed by free persons in this respect, and to amend the said Ordinance : Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of West- ern Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :—

I. THAT the 10th section of the, said recited Ordinance shall

21st Viet., No. 6. 1857.

Conditional pardonand may be read and applied as if the words "nor to any person man not excluded. holding a conditional-pardon for any criminal offence" had not been

inserted therein.

II.     THAT the 15th section of the said recited Ordinance shall

Three Justices of the

Peace at licensing	and may be read and applied as if the word "three" had been in-
board.	serted therein instead of the word " two."

III.

THAT the 11th section of the said recited Ordinance shall duce of any vineyard belonging to him or being in his possession)" had been inserted therein after the word "wine" in the said section.

Justices selling wine

may sit on licensing	and may be read and applied as if the words "(not being the pro-
bench.

IV.     THAT so much of the 43rd section of the said recited Or-

43rd section not to

apply to conditional-	dinance as relates to any person holding a conditional-pardon for
pardon man.	any criminal offence shall be and is hereby repealed.

A. E. KENNEDY,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council thisi

22nd day of June, 1857.

HENRY WAKEFORD,

Clerk of the Council.

Printed by Su/nitro, & Co., Perth.