Habitual Drunkards Act 1879

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Establishment of retreats.

6. The local authority may, subject to any conditions which such local authority shall deem fit, grant to any person, or to two or more persons jointly, a license for any period not exceeding [¹ two years] to keep a retreat; and may, from time to time, revoke or renew such license. The application for such license shall be in the Form No. 1 in the [²] Second Schedule hereto, or to the like effect. The license shall be in the Form No. 2 in the same Schedule, or to the like effect. One at least of the persons to whom a license is granted shall reside in the retreat and be responsible for its management. A duly qualified medical man shall be employed as medical attendant of such retreat, provided that when the name of the licensee shall be on the Medical Register he may himself act as such medical attendant.

[¹ Substituted for thirteen months by 61 & 62 Vict. c. 60. s. 15.]

[² The second Schedule and the references thereto in ss. 6, 10 are rep. as from the date at which new forms substituted under 61 & 62 Vict. c. 60 come into effect; see s. 28 of that Act.]