Inebriates Act 1898

1898 CHAPTER 60 61 and 62 Vict

F1 An Act to provide for the treatment of Habitual Inebriates.

[12th August 1898]

Textual Amendments

F1 Act repealed (S.) (1.9.2009 at 5.00 a.m.) by The Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/248), art. 1(1), sch. 2 (with art. 3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

1—20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 Ss. 1—29, Sch. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. II

Supplemental U.K.

21—29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Ss. 1—29, Sch. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. II

30 Short title. U.K.

This Act may be cited as the Inebriates Act 1898, and [F4 the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of the following enactments, namely—

• the M1 Licensing Act 1902, section 6,

• the M2 Licensing (Scotland) Act 1903, section 71, and . . . F5

(being enactments which operate by reference to the list of offences set out in the Schedule).]

Textual Amendments

F4 Words substituted by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 2 Pt. I

F5 Words repealed by Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976 (c. 66), Sch. 8

Marginal Citations

M1 1902 c. 28.

M2 1903 c. 25.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE U.K.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Sch. 1 extended by Licensing Act 1902 (c. 28), s. 2(3)

C3 References to Licensing Act 1872 (c. 94), s. 12, Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (c. 47), s. 58 and Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (c. 89), s.29 to be construed as including references to Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 91(1): Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)

Description of Offence	Statute enacting Offence
Being found drunk in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on licensed premises.	Licensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.
Being guilty while drunk of riotous or disorderly behaviour in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not.	Licensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.
Being drunk while in charge, on any highway or other public place, of any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam-engine.	Licensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.
Being drunk when in possession of any loaded firearms.	Licensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.
F6 . . .	F6 . . .
F6 . . .	F6 . . .
Being found drunk in any street or public thoroughfare within the Metropolitan Police District, and being guilty while drunk of any riotous or indecent behaviour.	Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 58.
Being drunk in any street, and being guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour therein.	Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 29.
Being intoxicated while driving a hackney carriage.	Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 61.
Being drunk during employment as a driver of a hackney carriage, or as a driver or conductor of a stage carriage in the Metropolitan Police District.	London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 86), s. 28.
Being drunk and persisting, after being refused admission on that account, in attempting to enter a passenger steamer.	Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 287.
Being drunk on board a passenger steamer, and refusing to leave such steamer when requested.	Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 287.
[F7 Failing to leave licensed premises, etc. when asked to do so.]	[F7 Licensing Act 2003, s 143.]
[F7 Entering, or attempting to enter, licensed premises, etc. when asked not to do so.]	[F7 Licensing Act 2003, s 143.]
Description of Offence	Statute enacting Offence
Being found in a state of intoxication and incapable of taking care of himself, and not under the care or protection of some suitable person, in any street, thoroughfare, or public place.	[F8 Licensing (Scotland) Act 1903 (c. 25), s. 70]
Being in any street drunk and incapable and not under the care and protection of some suitable person.	Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), s. 381.
Being drunk while in charge in any street or other place of any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam engine, or when in possession of any loaded firearms.	Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), s. 380.
Being found in any shebeen drunk	Public Houses Acts Amendment (Scotland) Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 35), s. 19.
. . . F9	. . . F9

Textual Amendments

F6 Sch. 1 entries repealed (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 6(a), Sch. 7 (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2) (with art. 4)

F7 Sch. 1 entries inserted (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 6(b) (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2)

F8 Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)

F9 Entries repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. II

F10 F10 SECOND SCHEDULE U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F10 Ss. 1—29, Sch. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. II