New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOTTERIES AND ART UNIONS ACT 1901 - SECT 18B

18B Liquor prizes

(1) This section applies to a prize in a lottery or game of chance and a prize to be allotted or distributed by an art union.

(2) A prize may consist of or include liquor within the meaning of the Liquor Act 2007 .

(3) The regulations may provide for the liquor component of any prize to be limited to such proportion of the total value of the prize, or such quantity, as may be prescribed.

(4) A person under the age of 18 years must not:

(a) sell a ticket for a prize having a liquor component, or

(b) collect a prize having a liquor component.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(5) A person must not:

(a) sell a ticket for a prize having a liquor component to a person under the age of 18 years, or

(b) give a prize having a liquor component to a person under the age of 18 years.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(6) It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (5) if the defendant proves that he or she did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, that the person to whom a ticket was sold or a prize given was under the age of 18 years.

(7) A minor may not be imprisoned, or detained in a detention centre, as a consequence of a failure to pay a penalty under this section.

(8) In this section, "liquor component" means that part of a prize in a lottery, game of chance or an art union consisting of or including liquor.