LEGAL STATUS OF DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
UNDER THE LICENSING ACT. Reserved judgment delivered by;. Mr. S. E. M'Curtlly, S.'M' V in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in tlie case' in which the police proceeded. against' Adam .John Munro, licensee of the N'ewj Zealander Hotel, for employing one> Helen Munro, his daughtcw-iii-law, in.' tbo capacity of a barmaid, she notf being a registered barmaidl, and lioU ivithm the exceptions set out in subsec-i tion ,3 of scctiou 3d of the Licensing! Amendment Act, 1910. .Mr. P. W. JncJcsoii, ivho a-jjpearedJ for the dpfendant, contended tuat tlie>; daughter-in-law, although not jvithin.. the strict letter ol' the exception,, wasj ivithin it£i spirit, in that- she was ebar« l.v a member of the licensee's family.' The Magistrate, in his judgment, said: ; i "Only lour classes of persons caana', within the exception, the wife, the sis—i ter or daughter or the licensee, and' a registered barmaid, the daughter andsister being, <!' course, blood relations;] If the contention for the defendant is:' to prevail, not ouiv the licensee's wife,.: but his son's wife will come within: the exception ; and t!ie son's wife is not therein mentioned. If you admit daughter-in-la,.' yott must also admit', the sister-in-law. Then we shall havef. the licensee's brother's wife within tha' exception in addition to his own, and: she, like . the (innglrtcr-in-laiv, has not 1 , been mentioned by the Legislature.-' An Act of Parliament must, in ordin-; ary circumstances, be interpreted _ in. l accordance ivitlt the ordinary meaning of the language used, and not in accordance with the strained, interpretation invented by the wit of lawyer. A) daughter-in-law is not. a dmighter. a, sister-in-law is not a sister. No one! would dream of mistaking one for the other. Both the daughter and sister of the licensse are iiis blood relations.* His daughter-in-law and sister-in-law uro not."
Tlio defendant was convicted and fined 40s.' aiid ordered to pay 7s.»costs^i
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 158, 23 March 1918, Page 8
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313LEGAL STATUS OF DAUGHTERIN-LAW Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 158, 23 March 1918, Page 8
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