Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts33E. Retention of credit and debit cards
(1) A licensee must not retain possession of a person's credit card or debit card as security for payment by the person for the sale of liquor or other goods at the licensed premises.
(2) Subsection (3) applies to a prosecution for an offence against section 110 for a contravention of subsection (1).
(3) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, on production of a certificate signed by the Director stating that on a specified date a specified licensee had possession of a specified person's credit card or debit card, the licensee must be taken to have had possession of the card in contravention of subsection (1).
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), proof of compliance with record keeping requirements for the sale of liquor in guidelines approved by the Minister is evidence to the contrary for that subsection.
(5) The approval of guidelines must be published in the Gazette .
(6) In this section:
possession , of a credit card or debit card, includes having the card under control in any place, whether or not another person has the custody of the card.