# Metropolitan Police Act 1839, Section 44: Regulations of 9G. 4. c. 61 respecting public houses to extend to other houses of public resort.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

. . . Every person who shall have or keep any house, shop, room, or place of public resort within the metropolitan police district, wherein provisions, liquors, or refreshments of any kind shall be sold or consumed, (whether the same shall be kept or retailed therein or procured elsewhere,) and who shall wilfully or knowingly permit drunkenness or other disorderly conduct in such house, shop, room, or place... or knowingly permit or suffer prostitutes or persons of notoriously bad character to meet together and remain therein, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty of not more than level 1 on the standard scale: . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/44 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839/section-44
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