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Hawking spirits
Cap. 150, s. 56 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) A magistrate or any Justice of the Peace, police officer or other peace officer may seize and take away, or destroy, or cause to be seized, taken away or destroyed all such fermented,
spirituous or mixed liquor as is hawked about or exposed for sale in any street, road or footpath, or in any booth, tent, stall or shed, or in any boat or vessel, or in any other place whatever by any person not licensed to sell it in such place, as well as the vessels containing it.
(2) All vessels and utensils used for drinking or measuring all such liquor, and any cart, dray or other carriage, horse or other animal employed in drawing or carrying it, as well as any boat or vessel used in the conveyance of such liquor may be likewise seized, taken away or destroyed.
(3) The magistrate may convict any person who hawks about or exposes for sale or sells any such liquor as aforesaid and thereupon cause such liquor, the vessels and utensils containing it, and any cart, dray or other vehicle, horse or other animal and any boat or vessel used in conveying it, to be sold,
and the proceeds thereof, after deducting the expenses of sale,
shall be appropriated in like manner as fines are in this Act directed to be appropriated.
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