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Constables and police officers empowered to visit licensed refreshment houses.
Penalty for refusing them admittance.
Licence to be forfeited,&c. on second conviction if justices think fit.
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20. It shall be lawful for any inspector or superintendent or serjeant of police, or for any county inspector, sub-inspector, head or other constable, when and so often as he or they shall respectively think proper, to enter at any time between the hours of nine at night and seven in the morning into all houses licensed as refreshment houses under the authority of this Act, and into and upon the premises belonging thereto; and if any person licensed to keep a refreshment house, or any servant or other person in his employ or by his direction, shall refuse to admit or shall not admit any such officer of police or constable demanding admittance into such refreshment house or upon such premises, the person so licensed shall for the first offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, together with the costs of conviction, to be recovered before one or more justices, on information or complaint made within seven days next after the day on which such offence was committed; and it shall be lawful for any such justice or justices before whom any such person shall be convicted for the second time of any such offence to adjudge (if he or they shall so think fit) the licence or licences of such offender in respect of such refreshment house to be forfeited, and that he shall be disqualified from having any licence granted to him under this Act in respect of such house for the space of two years, or for such shorter space of time as he or they may think proper to adjudge.
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