Gaming Act 1845

X Justices may grant Billiard Licences at Licensing Sessions.

And be it enacted, That the Justices in every Division, District, and Place in England for which a Special Session of the Justices of the Peace (called the General Annual Licensing Meeting) is holden annually for granting Licences to Persons keeping or being about to keep Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling Houses to sell exciseable Liquors by Retail, to be drunk or consumed on the Premises therein specified, shall have Authority at such General Annual Licensing Meeting, or at any Adjournment thereof, to grant Billiard Licences to such Persons as the said Justices shall in their Discretion deem fit and proper to keep public Billiard Tables and Bagatelle Boards, or Instruments used in any Game of the like Kind, and at the Special Sessions holden for transferring Licenses to keep Inns shall have Authority to transfer such Billiard Licences to such other Persons as they in their Discretion shall deem fit and proper to continue to hold the same, and who in each Case shall be required to give the like Notice of their Intention to apply for such Billiard Licence, and entitled to receive the like Notice of the Licensing Days as is required in the Case of Persons intending to apply for a Licence or the Transfer of a Licence to sell exciseable Liquors by Retail to be drunk or consumed on the Premises, or as near thereto as the Case will allow; and every such Billiard Licence shall be in the Form given in the Third Schedule annexed to this Act, and shall continue in force in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey from the Fifth Day of April, and elsewhere from the Tenth Day of October, after the granting thereof, for One whole Year thence respectively next ensuing, and no longer ; and the Clerk of the Justices shall be entitled to demand and receive from every Person licensed under this Act, for the Petty Constable or other Peace Officer, for serving Notices and other Services required of him, the Sum of One Shilling, and for the Clerk of the Justices, for the Licence, the Sum of Five Shillings; and every Clerk who shall demand or receive from any Person for such Fees more than the said Sums, being together Six Shillings, shall for every such Offence, on Conviction before One Justice, forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds.