Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976

69 Children prohibited from bars and licensed canteens

(1) The holder of a licence in respect of any premises or his employee or agent shall not allow a person under 14 to be in the bar of those premises during the permitted hours, and the holder of a licence under Part III of this Act in respect of any canteen or his employee or agent shall not allow such a person to be in that canteen during the permitted hours.

(2) No person shall cause or procure, or attempt to cause or procure, any person under 14 to go to, or to be in, the bar of any licensed premises or in any licensed canteen during the permitted hours.

(3) No offence shall be committed under this section if the person under 14—

(a) is a child of the holder of the licence, or

(b) resides in the licensed premises but is not employed there, or

(c) is in the bar of, the licensed premises solely for the purpose of passing to or from some other part of the premises, not a bar, being a part to or from which there is no other convenient means of access or egress, or

(d) is in the licensed canteen solely for the purpose of passing to or from some other part of premises in which the canteen is comprised, not a bar, being a part to or from which there is no other convenient means of access or egress.

(4) No offence shall be committed under this section in respect of a bar which is in any railway refreshment room or other premises constructed, fitted and intended to be used bona fide for any purpose to which the holding of a licence is merely ancillary.

(5) If any person contravenes this section he shall be guilty of an offence.

(6) Where in any proceedings under this section it is alleged that a person was at any time under 14 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.