Book III: Combating alcoholism

Unemancipated minors and adults under guardianship may not themselves practise the profession of public housekeeper.

The following may not operate on-trade drinks outlets: 1° Persons convicted of a common crime or one of the offences listed in articles 225-5, 225-6, 225-7 and 225-10 of the Criminal Code; 2° Those who have been sentenced to at least one month’s imprisonment for theft, fraud, breach of trust, receiving stolen goods, skulduggery, receiving stolen goods, public indecency, running a gambling house, taking illegal bets on horse races, selling…

When the same convictions are handed down against an on-trade operator, they automatically entail a ban on operating an outlet for the same period, from the day on which the said convictions become final. This owner may not be employed, in any capacity whatsoever, in the establishment that he was operating, or in the service of the person to whom he sold or leased the said establishment, or by whom…

It is forbidden to employ or assign minors on work experience to bar service in on-trade pubs, with the exception of the owner’s spouse and parents or relatives up to and including the fourth degree. In licensed public houses, this prohibition does not apply to minors over the age of sixteen who are the beneficiaries of a training course including one or more periods spent in a company enabling them…