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Penalty upon unlicensed persons soliciting orders.
Service of notices, &c. where place of business of offender is not known, or is out of United Kingdom.
Exception in case of small quantities of foreign spirits or wine, and in favour of travellers of licensed persons.
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17. If any person shall solicit, take, or receive any order for spirits, wine, or other article for the dealing in, retailing, or selling whereof an Excise licence is by law required, without having in force a proper Excise licence authorizing him so to do, he shall forfeit the penalty imposed by law upon a person dealing in, retailing, or selling such article without having an Excise licence in force authorizing him so to do; and in any case in which the place of business or residence of the offender shall not be known to the officer of Excise who shall exhibit any information for the recovery of such penalty as aforesaid, or, if known, shall be out of the United Kingdom, it shall be sufficient service of the notice and summons required to be given to a defendant by any law of Excise if the same be left at the house or place where the offender shall have solicited, taken, or received any such order as aforesaid, addressed to such offender: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to apply to the sale of any spirits or foreign wine while the same shall be and remain in the warehouse or warehouses in which the same shall have been deposited, lodged, or secured according to law, before payment of duty upon the importation thereof, where such spirits or foreign wine shall be sold in a quantity not less than one hundred gallons at one time, or to impose a penalty upon a bonâ fide traveller taking orders for goods which his employer is duly licensed to deal in or sell.
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