LICENSING LAWS
POWERS WIDENED POLICE ENTRY TO PREMISES (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday Wider powers are given the police to deal with suspected breaches of the licensing regulations in the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations, 1942, issued in a supplementary Gazette tonight. One of the main operative clauses states that any constable may at all times enter without warrant any place in which he reasonably suspects that any offence against the provisions of the Licensing Act, relating to the sale of intoxicants by unlicensed persons has been or is about to be committed and may .conduct a search of the place. Anyone obstructing a constable in the exercise of this power is liable to three months’ imprisonment or a fine not exceeding £SO. Another important provision states that if in any prosecution for the sale, exposure or keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor by an unlicensed person evidence produced by the informant or facts admitted by the defendant are sufficient to constitute a reasonable cause of suspicion that the defendant is guilty of the offence charged, then the burden of proving that the offence was not committed shall be upon the defendant.
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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21654, 14 February 1942, Page 8
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191LICENSING LAWS Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21654, 14 February 1942, Page 8
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