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INTOXICATING LIQUORS (IRELAND) ACT 1815
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CHAPTER XIX.
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An Act to grant certain Duties of Excise upon Licences for the Sale of Spirituous and other Liquors by Retail, and upon Licences to Persons dealing in Exciseable Commodities in Ireland in lieu of the Stamp Duties payable upon such Licences, and to secure the Payment of such Excise Duties, and to regulate the issuing of such Licences, and to discourage the immoderate Use of Spirituous Liquors in Ireland. [23d March 1815.]
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[Whole Act, except ss. 64, 65, 67, 68 rep. 51 & 52 Vict. c. 33. s. 8.]
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Penalty on persons agreeing to pay or paying workmen, &c. wholly or partly in spirits.
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64. If any person in Ireland shall agree to pay or shall pay any journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer, or other person employed by or working under him, or her, or under his or her direction, so much money for wages, or any part thereof, which shall be ordinarily and usually paid for the work which such journeyman, servant, labourer, or other person shall be employed in, or shall agree to pay or shall pay such wages partly in money and partly in or by spirituous liquors, or shall set off, stop, or deduct all or any part of the wages or hire due to any journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer, for any spirituous liquors delivered or sold to or drank by him or her, every such person so offending shall for every such offence, upon being convicted thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace, forfeit the sum of forty shillings British currency; and every person giving or procuring credit to be given for spirituous liquors sold or drank as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of five pounds British currency.
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Penalty on persons paying workmen, &c. in public houses.
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65. No person in Ireland employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, shall by himself or herself, or by any other person, pay any journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer, employed by him or her, the whole or any part of the wages due to such journeyman, workman, servant, or labourer in or at any house in which any spirituous liquors, wine, beer, ale, porter, or cyder, or perry, metheglin, or mead shall be sold by retail; and every person so offending shall for every such offence, upon being convicted thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace, forfeit the sum of ten pounds British currency, and all payments of all wages made in manner aforesaid shall be null and void.
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Penalty on persons taking any pledge or pawn for money owing for spirits.
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67. . . . and in case any person shall take or receive any pawn or pledge from any person by way of security for the payment of any sum or sums of money owing by such person for spirituous liquors, every such person so offending and being convicted thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings British currency for every pawn or pledge so taken in or received by him or them, and the person or persons to whom any such pawn or pledge shall belong shall have the same remedy for recovering such pawn or pledge, or the value thereof, as if it had not been given as a pledge.
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Money for liquors sold to or by unlicensed persons not recoverable.
Securities for such money void.
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68. No person shall have any remedy for or recover any sum of money on account of any spirituous liquors, wine, beer, ale or porter, cyder or perry, metheglin or mead, sold knowingly to an unlicensed retailer of spirituous or other liquors in Ireland, nor shall any such unlicensed retailer have any remedy for or recover from any person any sum of money on account of any spirituous or other liquors sold by such unlicensed retailer; and all contracts, bills, promissory notes, bonds or other writings, given as a security for the payment of debts contracted for any spirituous or other liquors so sold to or by an unlicensed retailer, shall be and are hereby declared to be null and void.
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