THE TUAM HERALD, TUAM, CO GALWAY, SATURDAY, June 19, 1909 CAUTION TO PUBLICANS AND OTHERS CHILDREN ACT, 1906 The above Act, passed 21st December, 1906, came into operation 1st April last, and is being put in force by the police as may be seen by the reports of Tuam Petty Sessions in last week's Tuam Herald. EXCLUSION OF CHILDREN FROM BARS OF LICENSED PREMISES Section 120 of the Act says: The holder of the license of any licensed premises shall not allow any person under the age of 14 years to be at any time in the bar of the licensed premises except during the hours of closing, If the holder of a license acts in contravention of this section, or if any person causes or procures, or attempts to cause or procure, any child to go in the bar of any licensed premises except during the hours of closing, he shall be liable on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding, in respect of the first offence, forty shillings, and in respect of any subsequent offence, five pounds. If a child is found in the bar of a licensed premises, except during the hours of closing, the holder of the license shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this section unless he shows that he has used diligence to prevent the child being admitted to the bar or that the child was apparently over the age of fourteen. Nothing in this section shall apply in the case of any child of the license holder or in the case of a child resident but not employed in the licensed premises solely for the purposes of passing through in order to obtain access to or egress from, that part of the premises not being a bar, where there is no other convenient means of access to or egress from that part of the premises or in the case of railway refreshment rooms or other premises constructed, fitted and intended to be used in good faith for any purpose to which the holding of a license is merely auxiliary. JUVENILE SMOKING Section 39: If any person sells to a person apparently under the age of sixteen years any cigarettes or cigarette papers, whether for his own use or not, he shall be liable, on summary conviction in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding tow pounds, and in the case of a second offence to a fine not exceeding five pounds, and in the case of a third or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds. It shall be the duty of a constable and of a park keeper being in uniform to seize any cigarettes or cigarette papers of any person apparently under the age of sixteen whom he finds smoking in any street of public place, and such constable or park keeper shall be authorised to search any boy so found smoking, but not a girl.