Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

LIQUOR ACT 1975 - SECT 9

    (1)     Subject to this section, the provisions of this Act relating to the sale of liquor do not apply to or in relation to—

        (a)     the duty-free sale of liquor; or

        (b)     the administration, dispensing or sale of liquor for medicinal purposes—

              (i)     by or under the direction of a doctor; or

              (ii)     by a pharmacist; or

        (c)     the sale of liquor in a Defence Force mess, canteen, camp or post by the permission, and under the control, of the Defence Force authorities; or

        (d)     the sale, at a canteen or club established or conducted under the Army and Air Force Canteen Service Regulations 1959 , (Cwlth) of liquor by the Army and Air Force Canteen Service Board of Management to a person—

              (i)     who is a member of the Australian Defence Force or the naval, military or air force of a foreign country; or

              (ii)     who is an officer or employee of the Department of Defence; or

              (iii)     who is employed by the Army and Air Force Canteen Service Board of Management; or

              (iv)     who is employed at a special defence undertaking within the meaning of the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952 (Cwlth), section 6; or

              (v)     who is in the canteen or club at the invitation of a person mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv); or

        (e)     the sale of liquor in Parliament House; or

        (f)     the honest sale by auction by an auctioneer, in the ordinary course of the auctioneer's business, of liquor on account of someone else; or

        (g)     the sale by, or on behalf of, the Commonwealth or the Territory of liquor seized under a law in force in the ACT; or

        (h)     the sale of liquor in an exempt university building.

    (2)     A person must not sell or purchase liquor in an exempt university building in contravention of a statute of that university.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (3)     In this section:

"exempt university building" means a building that is occupied by—

        (a)     a university; or

        (b)     a residential college affiliated with a university under a statute of that university;

    in which the sale of liquor is authorised by a statute of that university.