Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power of the Commissioner to stop use of premises used in contravention of licenses.- If the Commissioner is of the opinion that any eating house, lodging house, hotel, boarding house, tea shop, coffee house, cafe, restaurant, refreshment room or other place where the public are admitted for repose or for consumption of any food or drink or where food is sold or prepared for sale or any theatre, circus, cinema house, dancing hall or similar other place of public resort, recreation or amusement is kept open without a licence or otherwise than in conformity with the terms of a licence granted in respect thereof, he may stop the use of any such premises for any such purpose for a specified period by such means, including sealing of the premises or the property, as he may consider necessary.