LIQUOR LICENSING ACT 1997 - SECT 130

LIQUOR LICENSING ACT 1997 - SECT 130

130—Unlawful consumption of liquor

        (1)         If—

            (a)         a prescribed entertainment is held on unlicensed premises; and

            (b)         the organisers of the entertainment have stipulated, in a manner calculated to come to the attention of those attending the entertainment, that no liquor is to be consumed on, or brought onto, the premises during the entertainment,

a person who consumes liquor on or in a place adjacent to the premises during a period commencing 30 minutes before the entertainment commences and ending 30 minutes after it concludes is guilty of an offence.

        (2)         This section does not prevent the consumption of liquor on licensed premises.

        (3)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against this section to prove the defendant—

            (a)         did not come to the relevant place for the purpose of attending or participating in the entertainment or for any other purpose connected with the entertainment; and

            (b)         did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known of the circumstances rendering the consumption of liquor in that place unlawful.

        (4)         In this section—

"prescribed entertainment" means—

            (a)         a dance;

            (b)         any other entertainment declared by regulation to be a prescribed entertainment for the purposes of this section.