Excise Licences Act, 1825

Penalty for exercising trade, &c. without licence.

Penalties.

26. If any person or persons shall make or manufacture, deal in, retail, or sell any goods or commodities herein-after mentioned, or shall exercise or carry on any trade or business herein-after mentioned, for the making or manufacturing, or dealing in, retailing, or selling of which goods or commodities, or for the exercising or carrying on of which trade or business, a licence is required by this Act, without taking out such licence as is in that behalf required, he, she, or they shall for every such offence respectively forfeit and lose the respective penalty thereupon imposed, as herein-after follows; (that is to say,)

Every distiller or maker of low wines or spirits, and every rectifier or compounder of spirits, so offending respectively, shall respectively forfeit and lose five hundred pounds:

Every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff, so offending, shall forfeit and lose two hundred pounds:

. . . . Every person not being a brewer of beer, who shall sell strong beer only in casks containing not less than four gallons and a half, or in not less than two dozen reputed quart bottles at one time, to be drank or consumed elsewhere than on his, her, or their premises;— . . . Every dealer in spirits, not being a retailer thereof;— Every retailer of spirits in Ireland, being licensed to trade in, vend, and sell coffee, tea, cocoa nuts, chocolate, or pepper;— . . . Every maker of vinegar or acetous acid, for sale;—Every dealer in foreign wine;— . . . so offending respectively;—shall respectively forfeit and lose the sum of one hundred pounds:

Every person who shall sell beer, cyder, or perry by retail, to be drank or consumed in his, her, or their house or premises;—Every retailer of spirits, not being a retailer of spirits in Ireland, duly licensed to sell coffee, tea, cocoa nuts, chocolate, or pepper;—Every retailer of foreign wine;— Every retailer of sweets or made wines, or of mead or metheglin;— . . . —Every dealer in or seller of tobacco or snuff;— . . . —Every person in Scotland or Ireland, not being a distiller, rectifier, or compounder of spirits, who shall keep or use any still for the carrying on the trade of a chemist, or any other trade or business requiring the use of any still or stills, so offending respectively;—shall respectively forfeit and lose the sum of fifty pounds.