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LIQUOR ACT 1992 - SECT 165A Refusing entry to premises

LIQUOR ACT 1992 - SECT 165A

Refusing entry to premises

165A Refusing entry to premises

(1) An authorised person for premises to which a licence or permit relates may refuse to allow a person to enter the premises if—
(a) the person is unduly intoxicated; or
(b) the person is disorderly; or
(c) the person is a minor, other than an exempt minor; or
(d) the authorised person suspects on reasonable grounds the person is a minor and the person fails to—
(i) produce acceptable evidence that the person is not a minor; or
Note—
See the Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994 , sections 29AH and 29AI for the use of a digital authority, a digital evidence of age or a digital evidence of identity.
(ii) show that, if admitted to the premises, the person will be an exempt minor; or
Note—
See sections 6 (Acceptable evidence of age) and 155 (Minors on premises).
(e) for licensed premises—it would be a breach of a condition of the licence for the premises to allow the person to enter the premises.
(2) A person must not enter, or attempt to enter, premises to which the person is refused entry under subsection (1) .
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(3) If a person attempts to enter premises despite being refused entry to the premises under subsection (1) , an authorised person may use necessary and reasonable force to prevent the person from entering the premises.
(4) A person must not resist an authorised person who is preventing the person from entering premises under subsection (3) .
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(5) In this section—


"authorised person" , for premises to which a licence or permit relates, means—
(a) the licensee or permittee; or
(b) an employee or agent of the licensee or permittee.