Section 292 - Penalty for harbouring thieves

(1) A person commits a misdemeanour who occupies or keeps a lodging-house, public-house, or any other house or place where intoxicating liquors are sold, or a place of public entertainment or public resort, and

(a) knowingly lodges or knowingly harbours thieves or reputed thieves, or prostitutes or knowingly permits or knowingly suffers them to meet or assemble in it, or

(b) knowingly permits or allows drunkenness or any other disorderly conduct in it, or

(c) knowingly allows the deposit of property in it having reasonable cause for believing it to be stolen.

(2) A licence for the sale of an intoxicating liquor, or for keeping a place of public entertainment or public resort, which has been granted to the occupier or keeper of those premises or place, may be forfeited by the Court on the occupier’s keeper’s first conviction of a criminal offence under subsection (1).

(3) On a second conviction for that criminal offence the licence shall be forfeited, and that person is disqualified for a period of two years from receiving that licence.

(4) Where two convictions under this section have taken place within a period of three years in respect of the same premises, whether the persons convicted were or were not the same, the Court shall direct that for a period not exceeding one year from the date of the last of those convictions that type of licence shall not be granted to a person in respect of those premises.

(5) A licence granted in contravention of this section is void.

(6) The holder of a licence who is brought before a Court in pursuance of this section, shall produce the licence for examination; and, if the licence is forfeited, the holder shall deliver it up.

(7) A holder who wilfully neglects to produce the licence as required under subsection (6) is, in addition to any other penalty, liable to a fine not exceeding ten penalty units.