113 Persons under 18 not to be employed to serve alcoholic liquor in clubs.S
(1)A person under 18 shall not be employed in a registered club if the purpose, or one of the purposes, of his employment is to serve alcoholic liquor to persons in that club.
(2)If this section is contravened as regards any club, every person [F1whose name is, at the time of the contravention, contained in the list lodged under subsection (3)(b) of section 103 of this Act, or as the case may be in the new list last lodged under subsection (5) or (5A) of that section, in respect of that club] shall be guilty of an offence:
Provided that a person shall not be convicted of an offence under this section if he proves that the contravention in question took place without his knowledge or consent.
(3)For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be employed in a club where he works notwithstanding that he receives no wages for his work.
(4)Where in any proceedings under this section it is alleged that a person was at any time under 18, and he appears to the court then to have been under that age, for the purposes of the proceedings he shall be deemed to have been then under that age unless the contrary is shown.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55, SIF 36:3), s. 21(2)