WHAT IS A PUBLIC BAR?
This question is discussed, in the annual report of the Commissioner of Police, who says:—"Section 4 of the Licencing Act, 1908, defines a 'public bar' in licensed premises, but it is very doubtful whether 20 per cent, of the present licensed premises haV6 a public bar as defined by the Act. In must cases the doors which originally opened immediately from the bar to a street have been built up, with the result that nearly all bars now open <nto a passage in the hotel premises, and have no door opening immediately on to a- street. The police do not object to tho view of the bars being shut off from the efcreet—indeed, it is better that this should be so—but as certain offences may be committed in a bar which cannot be punished so long as they aie committed in one not opening on to a street, it may be well to amend the definition of public bar to mean 'any /place in any licensed premises in which liquor is sold or kept for sale. Th.s ■would cover private as well as public bars." i
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 3
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191WHAT IS A PUBLIC BAR? Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 3
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