Part XII Protection of Persons under Eighteen and other Provisions as to Conduct of Licensed Premises and Licensed Canteens.
Preservation of order
172 Licence holder not to permit drunkenness, etc.
(1)
The holder of a justices’ licence shall not permit drunkenness or any violent, quarrelsome or riotous conduct to take place in the licensed premises.
(2)
If the holder of a justices’ licence is charged under subsection (1) of this section with permitting drunkenness, and it is proved that any person was drunk in the licensed premises, the burden of proving that the licence holder and the persons employed by him took all reasonable steps for preventing drunkenness in the premises shall lie upon him.
(3)
The holder of a justices’ licence shall not sell intoxicating liquor to a drunken person.