New South Wales Repealed Acts

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LIQUOR ACT 1982 - SECT 24

24 Hotelier’s licence-trading hours

(1) Except where liquor is sold or supplied to, or consumed by, a lodger, an inmate or an employee of the licensee, liquor shall not, on premises to which a hotelier’s licence relates, be sold, supplied or consumed, and the licensed premises shall not be kept open for the sale, supply or consumption of liquor, except at a time permitted by subsection (2) or (3) or by variation of trading hours under section 25.

(2) Except as provided by subsection (3), liquor may be sold, supplied or consumed on the licensed premises and the licensed premises may be kept open for the sale, supply or consumption of liquor:

(a) on a day that is not a Sunday or a restricted trading day-from 5 am to midnight, and

(b) on a Sunday that is not a restricted trading day or 24 December-from 10 am to 10 pm, and

(b1) on a Sunday that is 24 December and not a restricted trading day:

(i) from 10 am to 10 pm, and

(ii) from 10 pm to midnight on that day but only when the liquor is sold or supplied for consumption on the licensed premises, and

(c) on a restricted trading day (other than Good Friday), where the liquor is sold or supplied for consumption with or as ancillary to a meal served in a dining room on the licensed premises-from noon to 10 pm, and

(c1) on Good Friday, where the liquor is sold or supplied for consumption on the licensed premises-from noon to 10 pm, and

(d) on a day that is 31 December and is not a restricted trading day (whether or not it is a Sunday)-from the earliest time permitted on that day by paragraph (a) or (b) to 2 am on the next succeeding day, whether or not that next succeeding day is a Sunday or a restricted trading day.

(2A) The sale or supply of liquor on the licensed premises is permitted between midnight on 31 December and 2 am on the next succeeding day only if the liquor is sold or supplied for consumption on the licensed premises.

(3) Despite subsection (2), but subject to section 25, if there was in force immediately before the amendment of this section by the Liquor (Amendment) Act 1989 a revocation or refusal of a variation of the trading hours for the licensed premises:

(a) liquor shall not be sold, supplied or consumed on the licensed premises, and

(b) the licensed premises shall not be kept open for the sale, supply or consumption of liquor,

except at a time applicable to the premises immediately before that amendment.

(4) Nothing in this section enables a person (including a lodger, an inmate or an employee of a licensee) to use or operate an approved gaming machine at premises to which a hotelier’s licence relates at a time other than a time permitted by subsection (2) or (3).