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Liquor Regulation 1893

UNITED KINGDOM

LIQUOR REGULATION 1893

No.4 of 1893

VICTORIA by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, &c., &c.

QUEEN'S REGULATION

(Made in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty by Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, under the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, in 1893.)

TO PROHIBIT THE SUPPLY OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS
TO NATIVES OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC ISLANDS.

[L.S.] JOHN B. THURSTON

1. IN this Regulation the expression "Western Pacific Islands" shall mean and include any of the following islands or places namely:-

The Groups of Islands known as, -

The Friendly Islands,
The Navigator's Islands,
The Union Islands,
The Phoenix Islands,
The Ellice Islands,
The Gilbert Islands,
The Solomon Islands,
The New Hebrides Islands,
The Santa Cruz Islands;

All other islands within the limits of the Pacific Order in Council of 1893.

"Native" shall mean and include in its reference any native of any island in the Pacific Ocean other than a person of European descent.

"Intoxicating Liquor" shall include all spirituous compounds and all fermented liquors, and any mixture part whereof is spirituous or which contains fermented liquors, and any mixture or preparation containing any drug capable of producing intoxication.

2. Every person subject to the jurisdiction of the High Commissioner's Court who, within the Western Pacific Islands, sells or gives or otherwise supplies, either directly or indirectly, to any native of any island or place within the Western Pacific Islands, any intoxicating liquor, shall on conviction thereof Before the Court of Her Majesty's
High Commissioner be liable to punishment as follows -

(1) Imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour and with or without a fine not exceeding ten pounds; or

(2) A fine alone not exceeding ten pounds without any imprisonment.

3. It shall not be an offence under this Regulation for any person to give to any native for any urgent cause or necessity and without recompense or remuneration any intoxicating liquor when such intoxicating liquor is given solely and purely for medicinal purposes; but it shall rest with the person giving such intoxicating liquor to prove to the satisfaction of the Court the existence of such urgent necessity, and, failing such proof, such person shall be liable to the punishment provided in section two hereof.

4. Regulation No. 4 of 1888, intituled "A Regulation to Prohibit the Supply of Intoxicating Liquors to Natives of the Western Pacific Islands," is hereby repealed; but any offence against such Regulation committed before the coming into force of this Regulation may be dealt with and shall be punishable as if such Regulation were still in force.

5. This Regulation may be cited as "The Liquor Regulation, 1893."

Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner this fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

By Command,

WILFRED COLLET,

Secretary to the High Commissioner.

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