Licensing Act 1902

2 Penalty for being drunk while in charge of child

(1) If any person is found drunk in any highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on any licensed premises, while having the charge of a child apparently under the age of seven years, he may be apprehended, and shall, if the child is under that age, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding one month.

(2) If the child appears to the court to be under the age of seven, the child shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be under that age unless the contrary is proved.

(3) The offence under this section shall be included in the list of offences mentioned in the First Schedule to the [61 & 62 Vict. c. 60.] Inebriates Act, 1898, and in section sixty of the [35 & 36 Vict. c. 94.] Licensing Act, 1872.