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LIQUOR LICENSING ACT 1997 - SECT 29

LIQUOR LICENSING ACT 1997 - SECT 29

29—Requirement to hold licence

        (1)         A person who sells liquor without being licensed under this Act to do so (or who sells liquor under a licence that is suspended) is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         for a first offence—$20 000;

            (b)         for a second or subsequent offence—$40 000.

        (2)         An occupier or person in charge of premises on which liquor is sold in contravention of subsection (1) who knowingly permits the sale is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         for a first offence—$20 000;

            (b)         for a second or subsequent offence—$40 000.

        (3)         If a prescribed person sells liquor to another person and—

            (a)         the prescribed person reasonably believes, or ought reasonably to believe, that the other person intends to sell the liquor in contravention of subsection (1); and

            (b)         that other person sells the liquor in contravention of subsection (1),

the prescribed person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         for a first offence—$20 000;

            (b)         for a second or subsequent offence—$40 000.

        (4)         In this section—

"prescribed person" means—

            (a)         a licensee; or

            (b)         a person employed or engaged by a licensee; or

            (c)         an agent of a licensee.