Page:The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867.djvu/23

Rh Any person acting as a gangmaster without a licence under this Act shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day during which he so acts.

6. No licence shall be granted to any person who is licensed to sell beer, spirits, or any other exciseable liquor.

7. Licences to gangmasters shall be granted by two or more Justices in Divisional Petty Sessions, on due proof to the satisfaction of such Justices that the applicant for a licence is of good character, and a fit person to be intrusted with the management of an agricultural gang.

The Justices shall annex to their licence a condition limiting, in such manner as they think expedient, the distances within which the children employed by such gangmaster are to be allowed to travel on foot to their work, and any gangmaster violating the condition so annexed to his licence shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings.

Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Justices to grant him a licence to act as gangmaster may appeal to the next practicable Court of General or Quarter Sessions: and it shall be lawful for such Court, if they see cause, to grant a licence to the applicant, which shall be of the same validity as if it had been granted by the Justices in Petty Sessions.

8. Licences under this Act shall be in force for six months only, and may be renewed on similar proof to that on which an original licence is granted.

9. There shall be charged in respect of each grant or renewal of licence a fee of one shilling, and such