Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not consume liquor in a prescribed public place.
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) possesses an open container of liquor in a prescribed public place; and
(b) intends to consume the liquor in the place.
Maximum penalty: 2 penalty units.
(3) An offence against subsection (1) is a strict liability offence.
(4) For subsection (2), a container is taken to be open if a manufacturer's seal is broken or the contents of the container are otherwise accessible.
(5) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to the consumption or possession of liquor—
(a) on licensed premises or on premises where food is sold for consumption on those premises; or
(b) within 50m of premises mentioned in paragraph (a) by a person using furniture or other facilities lawfully provided by the proprietor or lessee of those premises for that purpose; or
(c) at a time and place stated in a liquor permit.
(6) In this section:
"liquor" means a beverage that contains more than 0.5% by volume of ethyl alcohol.
"prescribed public place" means a public place that—
(a) is, or is within 50m of, a bus interchange; or
(b) is within 50m of a shop or licensed premises; or
(c) is declared by the regulations to be a public place to which this section applies.
(7) Regulations made for subsection (6), definition of prescribed public place , paragraph (c) may provide that a public place specified in the regulations is taken to be a public place to which this section applies only at specified times or during specified periods, and if the regulations so provide, subsections (1) and (2) apply in relation to that public place accordingly.