SERVING CHILDREN IN PUBLIC-HOUSES.

HC Deb 10 March 1898 vol 54 c1247

MR. H. V. DUNCOMBE (Cumberland, Egremont)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if licensing magistrates have powers under the existing law to prevent licence-holders serving children under thirteen years of age with intoxicating liquors for consumption off the premises?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

There is no statutory provision expressly giving justices the power to prevent such serving; but it is, of course, open to them, when the question of the grant or renewal of a licence is before them, to consider any abuses which are likely to result in connection with the serving of children under 13.