LIGHTS ON in a street highway or road to which the public have access must, during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise, be provided with a lamp or lamps in proper working order and properly lighted. The lamps must be so constructed and capable of being so attached as wjsen lighted to display to the front a white light visible for a reasonable distance. Ifdoniy one lamp is provided it should be placed on the off or right side of the vehicle ; and, if the lamp or lamps are so constructed as to permit is light to be seen from the rear, that light should be red. A vehicle used for carrying timber or any load projecting more than six feet to the rear must in every case have a red light at the rear. Non-compliance with the law in this matter is punishable by a fine. Borough Councils have power to exempt vehicles from the operation of the law in regard to vehicles carrying inflammable goods, as also have County Councils in regard to vehicles engaged in harvesting. The Lights on Vehicles Act, 1907, is the authority for the foregoing, but the following vehicles are expressly excluded from tho operation of the statute : (a) bicycles, tricycles ; (b) light locomotives or motor cars ; (e) heavy road locomotives ; (d) vehicles drawn or propelled by hand. The first three of these classes of vehicles are the subject, in the matter of lighting, to special statutes. A machine or implement of any kind drawn by animal traction would be a vehicle within the meaning of the Act of 1907.
LIQUOR the passing of the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, the following licences are no longer to be granted : (a) The additional retail dealer's licences for the sale of spirits or beer ; (b) the licence for the sale of table beer ; and (c) the combined retail wine and beer licence. Tho licences now granted are as follows : (1) Manufacturers—(a) Spirit Distiller ; (b) Rectifier or Compounder of Spirits ; (c) Brewer for sale ; (d) Brewor other than for sale ; (e) Maker for sale of sweets. (2) Wholesale Dealers—(a) Spirits ; (b) Beer ; (c) Wino ; (d) Sweets. (3) Retailers (On)— (a) Spirits (publican's licence) ; (b) Beer (beerhouse licence); (e) Cider ; (d) Wine ; (e) Sweets. (4) Retailers (Off)--(a) Spirits ; Beer ; (c) Cider ; (d) Wine ; (e) Sweets. (5) Passenger Vessel licences. (6) Railway Restaurant Car licences. (7) Occasional licences. The duties on these licences are set out in the schedules below.
Duration.—All the licences, other than the manufacturers' and wholesale dealers', must be taken out annually, and expire (except as stated below) in England and Ireland on the 30th September, and in Scotland on the 28th May in each year. A manufacturer's licence expires on the 30th September and a wholesale dealer's on the 30th June in every year. Whore, however, a retailer's off-licence is held by the holder of a wholesale dealer's licence for the sale of the same liquor, the retailer's licence expires on the same day as the wholesale dealer's. And a licence ipso fade expires by reason of default in payment of the second half of the duty where the latter can be paid in half-parts in the cirumstances set out in the next paragraph.
Duty may be Paid by Two Instalments of each where it exceeds the sum of £60, the first half being required to be paid on the grant of the licence, and the other immediately after the expiration of six months from the commencement of the year for which the licence was granted. But if the licence was granted after the month of September, the second half of the duty will be payable on the 1st March next after the commencement of such year. The foregoing applies to two or more licences granted in respect of one sot of promises as it applies to a single licence.
Definitions.—In reading this article and the schedule regard should be bad to the following definitions: The expression beer includes ale, porter, spruce beer, black beer, and any other description of beer, and any liquor which is made or sold as a descrip tion of beer or as a substitute for beer, and which on analysis of a sample thereof at any time is found to contain more than 2 per cent. of proof spirit ; wines means im ported wines ; sweets are any fermented liquor made from fruit and sugar, mixed or not with any other material, and includes British wines, made wines, mead, and metheglin. Cider includes perry. A publican's licence is the on-licence taken out by a retailer of spirits, and the expression beerhouse licence means the on-licence to be taken out by a retailer pf beer. Fully-licensed premises are premises to which a publican's licence is attached, and the expression beerhouse means premises to which a beerhouse licence is attached.
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