Section 61: Illegal hiring

61. Illegal hiring (1) No premises— (a) on which the sale by wholesale or retail of intoxicating liquor is authorised by a licence whether for consumption on or off the premises; R20 – 27 [Issue 1] Representation of the People Act (b) where intoxicating liquor is sold or is supplied to members of a club, society or association other than a permanent political club; (c) where refreshment of any kind, whether food or drink, is ordinarily sold for consumption on the premises; or (d) used for a primary school or secondary school in receipt of a grant-in-aid from public funds, or any part of such premises, shall be used as committee room for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a candidate at an election. (2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or who knowingly lets such premises as a committee room for a purpose mentioned in subsection (1) shall be guilty of illegal hiring. (3) Nothing in this section shall apply to any part of such premises which is ordinarily let for the purpose of chambers or offices, or the holding of public meetings or of arbitrations, where that part has a separate entrance and no direct communication with any part of the premises on which any intoxicating liquor or refreshment is sold or supplied as is mentioned in subsection (1). (4) Nothing in this section shall preclude a candidate, for the purpose of holding a public meeting in furtherance of his candidature, from using at reasonable times a suitable room in any school mentioned in subsection (1) situated within the electoral area for which he is a candidate, subject to the consent of the manager of the school having been previously obtained. 62. —