§ MR. A. PEASEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether licenses to sell intoxicating liquors granted to railway refreshment rooms entitle the holders to hawk spirits in bottles in every part of the station?
THE CHANCELLOR or THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GUILDERS),who replied, said: My right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this Question; and, so far as the Revenue Departments are concerned, I have to say that the Excise licence for the sale of liquors at a railway refreshment room is, in fact, a publican's licence, based on the certificate of the magistrates under the Act 9 Geo. IV. C, 61, Schedule C; and as this permits the liquors to be drunk or consumed in the house, or on the premises thereunto belonging, the supply of liquors to passengers on the railway platform seems to me to be within the meaning of the Act.