IF PROHIBITION COMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17347, 19 December 1919, Page 8

IF PROHIBITION COMES.

PROVISIONS OF THE ACT; ALL LICENSES TO CEASE, HEAVY PENALTIES PROVIDED. LIQUOR FOR MEDICAL CASES. National prohibition if finally determined upon will come into force on June 30 next. The procedure to be followed in giving effect to it is prescribed by the terms of the Licensing Amendment Act 1918. On the coming into force of a determination in favour of prohibition all licenses of any description then existing in New Zealand are to lapse, and no publican's license, wine license, accommodation house, packet, wholesale, or conditional license, charter of any club, win©. maker's license,, railway refreshment-room, or any other description of license can be either granted or renewed, while licensing committees ipso facto cease to exist. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations as to the importation, manufacture, or a sale of fiquor ror medicinal, scientific, sacramental or in- , dustrial purposes. Offences against these provisions, or attempts at such offences. or aiding and abetting them, is punishable by fines up to £100 for a first offence and imprisonment up to three months in SL^wi. a - eecond or subsequent offence, whether of the same or of a" dif- ' ST* kind. Where the defendant is a body corporate the penalty is to be * aS "nL 6 *^ £20 for a firat offence . and_not exceeding £1000 for a second or any subsequent offence. .No compensation is to be payable for any loss to property, trade, or" business U - ° Dational prohibition, bit authority is given to export stocks of hquor on the coming into force of the SSLS lfa Su- ~nd *?„ receive refu *d of Customs duties. All district licensing polk become abolished. -"censing