Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860

Persons convicted of felony or of selling spirits without licence shall be disqualified from retailing wine, &c.

24. Every person who shall be convicted of felony or of selling spirits without licence shall for ever thereafter be disqualified from selling wine by retail; and no licence to sell wine by retail under this Act shall be granted to any person who shall have been so convicted as aforesaid; and if any person shall, after having been convicted as aforesaid, so take out or have any licence to sell wine by retail under this Act, the same shall be void to all intents and purposes; and every person who shall, after being convicted as aforesaid, sell any wine by retail in any manner whatsoever, shall incur the penalty for so doing without licence; and in all such cases, in the prosecution for the recovery of such penalty, a certificate from the clerk of assize or the clerk of the peace or person acting as such of any such conviction as aforesaid shall on the trial in such prosecution be legal evidence thereof.