Finance Act 1946

9 Passenger aircraft licences for sale of intoxicating liquor and tobacco.

(1) After section C of the First Schedule to the [10 Edw. 7. c. 8.] Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910 (being the section relating to retailers' licences) there shall be inserted the following section :—

“CC—PASSENGER AIRCRAFT LICENCES

Licence to be taken out annually in respect of a passenger aircraft by the owner of the aircraft or his agent.

Duty of 1l.

Provisions applicable to Passenger Aircraft Licences.

1 A passenger aircraft licence granted in respect of any aircraft authorises the sale by retail while the aircraft is engaged in carrying passengers of any intoxicating liquor in the aircraft to passengers for consumption in the aircraft.

2 A passenger aircraft licence authorises the sale of tobacco as well as the sale of intoxicating liquor.

3 In the event of the transfer of the aircraft to some other owner, the licence granted under this section shall cease to have effect as respects that aircraft, but may, in that event and in the event of the loss of the aircraft, be transferred on the application of the owner of the aircraft or his agent, so as to attach to some other aircraft belonging to the owner.

4 Any licence granted under this section shall be carried in the aircraft.

5 For the purpose of giving jurisdiction, any sale of liquor in an aircraft shall be deemed to have taken place either where it has actually taken place or in any place in which the aircraft may be found.”

(2) In section fifty-two of the said Act, after the definition of " registered club" there shall be inserted the following definition :—

• “The expression ' passenger aircraft ' means an aircraft of any description employed for the carriage and conveyance of passengers which is flown from any place in the United Kingdom to any other place in the United Kingdom, or is flown from and to the same place in the United Kingdom on the same day.”

(3) At the end of subsection (2) of section one hundred and eleven of the [10 Edw. 7. c. 24.] Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (which exempts from the provisions of that Act the sale of intoxicating liquor in certain circumstances) there shall be added the following paragraph :—

“(n) the sale of intoxicating liquor for consumption in a passenger aircraft, being a sale authorised by a licence granted under the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, as amended by the Finance Act, 1946.”

(4) It is hereby declared that the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws for purposes similar to the purposes of this section.