Licensing Act (Ireland) 1874

Mitigation of penalties.

20.       .      .      .      where any person holding a license or excise license is convicted of any offence against this or the principal Act, or against any of the Acts recited or mentioned therein, the Court may not, except in the case of a first offence, reduce the penalty to less than twenty shillings, nor shall the penalty, whether of excise or police, be reduced in any case to less than the minimum authorised by any other Act.