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Sales to young persons for consumption off the premises.
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11.—(1) Every holder of a licence of any description authorising the sale of intoxicating liquor by retail for consumption off the premises who knowingly sells or delivers or allows any person to sell or deliver (save as hereinafter mentioned) any description of intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of eighteen years for consumption off the premises of the licence holder shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be punishable accordingly.
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(2) Every person who sends (except as hereinafter mentioned) any person under the age of eighteen years to any place where intoxicating liquors are sold, delivered, or distributed for the purpose of obtaining any description of intoxicating liquor, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be punishable accordingly.
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(3) Every person found guilty on summary conviction of an offence under this section shall be liable, in the case of a first offence, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and in the case of any subsequent offence, to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and in any case if he is a licence holder the conviction shall be recorded on his licence.
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(4) This section shall not apply to—
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(a) the delivery of intoxicating liquor at the residence or working place of the purchaser, or
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(b) the employment by a licensed person of a member of his family or his servant or apprentice as a messenger to deliver intoxicating liquor in sealed or corked vessels, or
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(c) the sale or delivery to a person over the age of fifteen years of intoxicating liquor delivered in a corked and sealed vessel containing not less than one reputed pint, or
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(d) the sending of a person over the age of fifteen years to obtain intoxicating liquor, if such liquor is delivered to such person in a corked and sealed vessel containing not less than one reputed pint.
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(5) In this section the word “corked” means closed with a plug or stopper, whether it is made of cork or wood or glass or some other material; the word “sealed” means secured with any substance without the destruction of which the cork, plug, or stopper cannot be withdrawn.
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