LICENSING AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 11, 21 December 1844, Page 4

LICENSING AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

[Came into operation July 17, 1844.] Preamble, reciting Licensing Ordinance, Session 11., No. 12. — Whereas by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealaad, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof (Session 11., No. 12,) intituled " An Ordinance for regulating the sale of fermented and spirituous liquors," it is enacted that in case of the formation of new settlements, it shall be lawful for any two justices of the peace for the district, the police magistrate being one, to grant licenses otherwise than at the tirce and in the manner in the said ordinance provided. 1 . Time for granting such licenses limited. — Be it further enacted by his Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that such licenses shall not be granted at any time beyond the expiration of two years after the arrival of the first police magistrate appointed to reside at such new settlement. 2. Houses in the interior how to be licensed. — And whereas the establishment of licensed houses in the interior of the country as well as on the sea coast would promote the convenience of the public, and would greatly faci-

litate communication between the various settlement?, and as the terms and conditions on which the same should be licensed jpay best be dejtej-piined by the ,Governo#in Cftuucil: be jt aj^o enacted ,tba£, notwithstanding anything in the said recited ,ordiaanc> contnined, it shall be lawful /or his E;sceiknoy the Governor, with the advice of t^e Executive Council, to license any hou§e for the purpose of , the said ordinance mentioned, at such times and in such manner,, upon such, terms and conditions, and either with or without any annual payment, as to the Governor in Council may seem meet: provided _that bo house to be licensed under the authority of this ordinance shall be within, three miles from the nearest limit of any town. 3. Ordinance Session 11., No. 12, apslU cable to Females. — And be it further enacted and declared that nothing in the said recited ordinance contained shall be held to prevent a woman from holding a license under the authority thereof.