(1) Whoever:
a) being licensed to sell intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises admits to the said premises any person under 16 (sixteen)
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years of age not accompanied by a person over 21 (twenty-one)
responsible for superintending him or
b) being licensed to sell beverages for consumption on the premises sells
or offers, whether on the said premises or in any other public place, any
intoxicating liquor to any person under 18 (eighteen) years of age not
accompanied by a person over 21 (twenty-one) responsible for
superintending him; or
c) makes any person under 21 (twenty-one) years of age drunk,
shall be punished with fine of from CFAF 5 000 (five thousand) to CFAF
50 000 (fifty thousand).
(2) Upon subsequent conviction within the meaning of Section 88of this
Code, the punishment shall be imprisonment for from 15 (fifteen) days to 1
(one) month and fine of from CFAF 10 000 (ten thousand) to CFAF 100 000
(one hundred thousand); and the Court may in addition order:
a) closure of the licensed premises under Section 34 of this Code ;
b) publication of its judgment ;
c) as against any offender the forfeitures described in Section 30 of this
Code.
(3) This Section shall not apply to any person proving that he was misled as
to the age of the minor or as to the age or authority of the person
accompanying him.
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In force from 12 July 2016
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