Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Amendment Act 1898 (WA)

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No. XXXIV.

AN ACT to amend the Wines, Beer, and Spirit

Sale Act, 1880, Amendment Act 1893.

[Assented to, .2gt1t October, 1t]9P.]

lative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legis- assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with

THIS Act may be cited as the Wines, Beer. and Spirit Sale Amendment Act, 1898. Short title.

1.

2. SECTION seventeen of the Wines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Am le est of 57

Act, 1880, Amendment Act, 1893, is hereby repealed, and in hen	.Victe ,KNio 25, see. 17.
thereof the following section shall be and is hereby substituted :- " No person of the female sex who, being of the age of thirty years or more, is a. widow or a married woman living apart or divorced from her husband shall be disqualified to hold a publican's general license, or a wine and beer license, by reason only of her sex.
" Provided always that no such license shall be held by or granted to a woman whose husband holds such a license, or shall be held by or granted to a man if his wife holds such a license."

62° VICTORI/E, No. 34.

[Tines, Beer, and Spirit Sale Act—Amendment.

Definition of 3. A PERSON shall not be deemed to be a bona fide traveller

" traveller." unless the place where he lodged during the preceding night was at least three miles distant from the place where he demands to be supplied with liquor, such distance to be calculated by the nearest public thoroughfare.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Governor's Deputy.

By Authority A. CURTIS, Acting Government Printer, Perth.