A.D. 1901.

Sale of liquors to

be illegal.

2. Every holder of a licence who knowingly sells or delivers, or allows any person to sell or deliver, save at the residence or working children to place of the purchaser, any description of intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of fourteen years for consumption by any person on or off the premises, excepting such intoxicating liquors as are sold or delivered in corked and sealed vessels in quantities not less than one reputed pint for consumption off the premises only, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for the first offence, and not exceeding five pounds for any subsequent offence; and every person who knowingly sends any person under the age of fourteen years to any place where intoxicating liquors are sold, or delivered, or distributed, for the purpose of obtaining any description of intoxicating liquor, excepting as aforesaid, for consumption by any person on or off the premises, shall be liable to like penalties.

ber of his family or his servant or apprentice A.D. 1901. as a messenger to deliver intoxicating liquors.

4. For the purposes of all legal proceedings Provisions under this Act, this Act shall be construed, for lezal proceedings in England, as one with the Licensing Acts, under Act. 1872-1874; in Scotland, as one with the Licensing (Scotland) Acts, 1828 to 1897; and in Ireland, as one with the Licensing (Ireland) Acts, 1833-1900.

5. The term "corked" means closed with Definitions. a plug or stopper, whether it is made of cork or wood, or glass, or some other material.

The expression "sealed" means secured with any substance without the destruction of which the cork, plug, or stopper, cannot be withdrawn.

6. This Act may be cited for all purposes Short title. as the Intoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Act, 1901.

7. This Act shall come into operation on Commence. the first day of January one thousand nine ment of Act. hundred and two.

An Act to amend sections fifty-four, fifty-six, fifty-seven, and seventy-one of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and to make provision with respect to the making of rates in certain urban districts in Ireland.

[17th August, 1901.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Vict. c. 37.

1.-(1.) Subsection (11) of section fifty-four Amendment of the principal Act shall not apply in the of 61 & 62 case of an occupier who would but for this s. 54, with enactment be entitled under that subsection respect to deductions to deduct from his rent a portion of the poor from rent rate, and subsection (3) of section three of the in certain Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1900 (which cases. 63 & 64 Vic amends the said subsection (11)), shall be repealed. c. 63.

(2.) This section shall come into operation as respects any holding as from the gale day next after the passing of this Act.

2. Where for the purpose of raising in any Amendment area the exact amount of any excluded charges of 61 & 62 mentioned in sections fifty-six or fifty-seven of ss. 56 & 57

Vict. c. 37.

Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 71, with respect to date on

(a) in the case of any excluded charge mentioned in the said section fifty-six, be carried to the district fund of the district comprising that area, or, where the area is comprised in more than one county district, to the district funds in proportion to the rateable value of the part of the area comprised in each district; and

(b) in the case of any excluded charge mentioned in the said section fifty-seven, be applied in such manner as the Local Government Board direct in aid of any rate required to meet any such excluded charge leviable within the aforesaid area.

3. If within one year after the passing of this Act the council of a county or of an urban county district apply to the Local Government Board for an order under section seventy-one which order of the principal Act altering their financial relations, and if no order under the said section affecting those relations has been made since

may be

made.

the passing of the said Act, the Board may, if A.D. 1901. of opinion that those relations have become inequitable by the operation of that Act, make an Order under that section, any limit of time contained therein notwithstanding.

urban

c. 103.

1 & 2 Vict.

4. In an urban district under the Towns Provision with respect Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or under a to making local Act incorporating the rating provisions of rates in thereof, the provisions of section seventy of certain the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838, and section districts. twenty one of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 17 & 18 Viet. 1849, with respect to the making of the poor rate, shall apply to the making of any rate under c. 56. the said Act of 1854, or such local Act, instead 12 & 13 Vict. of the provisions in that behalf of section sixty- c. 104. one of the said Act of 1854, and so much of the provisions of section sixty thereof as relate to the fixing of a day on which the rate is to be payable and the publication of notices in respect of such rate.

An Act to confirm certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures.

[17th August, 1901.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to confirm certain Colonial Acts the validity of which is open to doubt by reason of their not having been reserved for the signification of Her late Majesty's pleasure:

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

tain Acts of

tures.

1. Each of the Acts mentioned in the sche Confirmadule to this Act shall be deemed to be and to tion of cerhave been, as from the date of the assent Colonial thereto of the Governor of the Colony by Legisla whose Legislature it was passed, as valid as if it had been reserved for the signification of Her late Majesty's pleasure, and Her late Majesty's assent to the Act had been duly given and signified in the colony at the date aforesaid.

2. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Short title. Acts Confirmation Act, 1901.

A.D. 1901.

Extension of

c. 13.

1. Extension of 52 & 53 Vict. c. 13.

An Act to extend the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1889.

[17th August, 1901.]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The purchase of Land (Ireland) Amend52 & 53 Vict. ment Act, 1859, as amended by any enactment, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, apply with the necessary modifications in the case of a tenant desirous of purchasing land, notwithstanding that the sale of his holding is not about to be made under the Land Purchase Acts.

under the

prietor of a holding charged with an annuity tenant under the Land Purchase Acts, an account purchaser shall be taken of the amount outstanding in Purchase respect of the original advance, and the origi- Acts. nal holding and any additional parcel of land purchased under this Act shall be deemed one holding and shall be charged with a new annuity for the repayment of such outstanding amount, together with the amount of the advance made in respect of such additional parcel, and shall be discharged from the annuity payable in respect of the original advance.

(2.) An annuity payable in pursuance of this section shall continue for such term years as the Land Commission, on the application of the purchaser, may determine.

3. This Act may be cited as the Purchase of Short title. Land (Ireland) (No. 2) Act, 1901.

A.D. 1901.

An Act to provide for the Construction and Working of a Submarine Cable from the Island of Vancouver to New Zealand and to Queensland.

[17th August, 1901.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the construction of a submarine cable (in this Act called the Pacific cable) from the Island of Vancouver on the west coast of the Dominion of Canada to Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean and thence by means of two cables to New Zealand and to Queensland respectively at an estimated cost of two million pounds:

And whereas it has been arranged that any sum required for the repayment of any money borrowed under this Act and for the annual expenses of the cable (including interest at the rate of three per cent. on borrowed money) shall (so far as not covered by receipts) be ultimately provided as to five-eighteenths thereof by His Majesty's Government and as to thirteen-eighteenths thereof by the Governments of Canada, of the States of New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, and of New Zealand (in this Act referred to as the Colonial Governments), and that any profits arising from the cable shall be divided between His Majesty's Government and the Colonial Governments in the same proportion:

And whereas it is expedient to make provision with respect to the construction and working of the cable by a board of management to be called the Pacific Cable Board:

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Treasury shall as and when they think fit issue out of the Consolidated Fund

2.-(1.) The Treasury may, if they think fit, Borrowing at any time borrow money for the for purposes of purpose of Act. providing for the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund under this Act, or repaying to that fund all or any part of the sums so issued, and all sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Exchequer.

(2.) Any sums so borrowed shall, during the construction of the Pacific cable, bear interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum, and after construction shall be repaid with interest at the same rate by means of terminable annuities for such period not exceeding fifty years from that time as the Treasury fix.

(3.) The principal of and interest on any money so borrowed and after construction the annuities created for the purpose of the repayment of that money shall, unless otherwise provided for, be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof.

cable.

3.-(1.) The amount required in each year Annual for the annual expenses of the Pacific cable, expenses of including any such expenses incurred before the passing of this Act, shall be defrayed out of the receipts arising in connection with the cable, and, so far as those receipts are not sufficient, out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(2.) For the purposes of this Act the annual expenses of the Pacific cable include any sums required for the payment of interest on money borrowed for the purposes of this Act (includ. ing the interest on any temporary loan raised for the purpose of the cable before the passing of this Act), or for the payment of annuities