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Closing of premises at certain hours on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, &c.
23 & 24 Vict. c. 107.
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78. Notwithstanding the provisions of section forty-three of the Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell or expose for sale, or to open or to keep open any premises for the sale of, intoxicating liquors on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving after nine o’clock at night within any city or town the population of which according to the last parliamentary census shall exceed five thousand, nor elsewhere after seven o’clock at night on such days, and on other days after ten o’clock at night.
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The provisions of all Acts relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors by retail, authorising or forbidding the doing of any act, matter, or thing at any times during which the sale of intoxicating liquors is by the said Acts prohibited, shall be construed as if the times during which the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited by this section were substituted respectively in the said Acts for the times therein mentioned.
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Any person who sells or exposes for sale, or opens or keeps open any premises for the sale of, intoxicating liquors at any other times than those limited for such purpose by section forty-three of the Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860, as the same is amended by this section, or during such times as aforesaid allows any intoxicating liquors to be consumed on such premises, shall for the first offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and for any subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
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