Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

LIQUOR ACT - SECT 31

(1) Subject to the Regulations, the Commission may issue a licence subject to such conditions as it may consider necessary or desirable in the particular circumstances of an application before it.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Commission may, subject to the Regulations, determine conditions with respect to:

(a) the construction and furnishing of licensed premises;

(b) the equipment and facilities to be provided on or at licensed premises;

(c) the restriction of days when and times during which licensed premises may be open for the sale of liquor;

(d) the minimum facilities and services to be operative on the days when and times during which licensed premises may be open for the sale of liquor;

(e) the method of sale of liquor, including restrictions on the type of container in which liquor may be sold and limitations as to the quantities or type of liquor which may be sold by a licensee;

(f) the standard of repair, cleanliness and hygiene to be maintained on or at licensed premises;

(g) the provision of entertainment on or at licensed premises;

(h) the provision of food on or at licensed premises;

(i) the display and content of notices, relating to this Act, on or at licensed premises;

(j) the persons who may be admitted to licensed premises; and

(k) the prohibition of specified activities on or at licensed premises by the licensee, employees of the licensee or patrons of those premises.

(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) or (2), the Commission may, in respect of an application for a licence in respect of premises or proposed premises referred in section 26(2), grant the licence subject to the condition that the sale of liquor on the premises is not permitted until the approval in writing to do so is obtained from the Commission or the licence is transferred under section 40.

(4) It is a condition of all licences that a licensee:

(a) shall not take any action that, in the opinion of the Commission, would induce the irresponsible or excessive consumption of liquor on licensed premises;

(b) shall not publish or cause to be published, in any media, an advertisement which, in the opinion of the Commission, could be construed as inducing the irresponsible or excessive consumption of liquor on licensed premises; and

(c) where a code of conduct or code of ethics or rules (by whatever name it is called) relating to the advertising of liquor is approved by the Commission and is accepted and promulgated by the Minister by notice in the Gazette , a licensee shall abide by that code or rules.

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), a licence shall not be subject to a condition under paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (4) until 14 days after the publication by the Commission of guidelines under section 67 relating to the expression of its opinion under those paragraphs.

(6) It is a condition of all licences that a licensee must comply with every prohibition notice given to the licensee.