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CHILD
CAREAND PROTECTION
the case of such revocation, shall not be eligible to be issued a
licence to operate a nightclub until the expiration of the period
of three years from the date on which such owner or operator is
convicted for the offence.
(4)
Any person who knowingly rents, or allows his
premises to be used, for the purposes of any conduct mentioned
in subsection (1) involving a child, commits an offence.
(5)
A person who commits an offence under this section
shall be liable upon summary conviction before a Resident
Magistrate to a fine not exceeding one million dollars or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
40.-(1)
An
owner or operator of an establishment that sells
Prohibition
of sale of
or serves intoxicating liquor or tobacco products shall ensure
intoxicating
that-
liquor or
tobacco
( a )
no intoxicating liquor or tobacco product is sold or
products
served by the establishment to any child; and
to child.
(b)
no child is employed by the establishment to sell or
assist in the selling of intoxicating liquour or tobacco
products.
(2)
A person commits an offence if that person-
(a)
contravenes subsection
( I ) ;
(b)
employs a child to sell or assist in selling intoxicating
liquor or tobacco products; or
(c)
purchases intoxicating liquor or tobacco products from
a child:
Provided that no person shall be guilty of an offence under
this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that at the
time of the sale, or purchase in the case of paragraph
(c),
he took
all reasonable steps to ascertain, and reasonably believed, that
the person employed, or the person to or by whom the
intoxicating liquor or tobacco product was sold or served, as the
case may require, was not a child.
(3)
In this section, "tobacco products" means cigarettes,
cigars, cheroots or cigarillos.
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