Excise Licences Act, 1825

Informer against an unlicensed trader, if the penalty cannot be recovered, to be paid such sum as the commissioners shall direct, not exceeding 10l.

29. Where any person or persons shall be lawfully convicted of any offence in carrying on any trade or business, or making or selling any goods, without licence, for the carrying on of which trade or business, or the making or selling of which goods, a licence or licences is or are required by this Act, and the pecuniary penalty imposed for such offence shall not be paid and cannot be levied, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of excise to cause such reward as they shall think fit, not exceeding ten pounds in each case, to be paid to the several and respective persons who shall appear to them to be entitled thereto as informers, out of any monies in their hands arising by any penalties or forfeitures incurred under the laws of excise.