CHAPTER 45:01
POLICE CANTEENS
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Sale of goods without licence at police canteens
4. Power to authorise establishment of police canteens
First Schedule
Second Schedule
Act 59, 1969.
An Act to provide for the sale without licence of goods at police canteens and to enable the establishment of additional canteens to be authorised.
[Date of Commencement: 30th December, 1970]
This Act may be cited as the Police Canteens Act.
In this Act—
“authorised persons” means serving members of the Botswana Police Force, special constables appointed under the law relating to the Botswana Police Force, and officers of the Prisons Service.
3. Sale of goods without licence at police canteens
Notwithstanding anything in any other law, it shall be lawful for any person engaged in operating a canteen under the control of the Commissioner of Police which is named in the First Schedule, or any other canteen which may be established under the provisions of section 4, to sell without any licence at such canteen to authorised persons goods of any of the categories set forth in the Second Schedule.
4. Power to authorise establishment of police canteens
The President may, by statutory instrument, make an order to authorise the establishment under the control of the Commissioner of Police of canteens at any place within Botswana for the sale to authorised persons of goods of the categories set out in the Second Schedule.
FIRST SCHEDULE
Botswana Police Canteen,
GABORONE.
Botswana Police Canteen,
FRANCISTOWN.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Foodstuffs and groceries
Beverages, including intoxicating liquor
Cigarettes, tobacco and smokers’ goods
Clothing
Household furniture and furnishings
Bicycles including tyres and accessories
Wireless sets and accessories
Clocks and watches