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LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 51

51 .         Liquor in unlicensed restaurants

        [(1)         deleted]

        (2)         Subject to subsection (3), a person who supplies liquor in, or in the vicinity of, an unlicensed restaurant for consumption in that restaurant commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (3)         Where a person is charged with a contravention of subsection (2) it shall be a defence to show that the liquor was brought to the restaurant, in such a quantity only as was reasonable in the circumstances, by a customer of the restaurant for consumption ancillary to a meal supplied at that restaurant to, and eaten by, that customer or a guest of that customer there.

        (4)         A person who — 

            (a)         being the occupier, or having the management or control, of an unlicensed restaurant; or

            (b)         being employed by or the agent of such a person,

                permits or suffers any other person to bring liquor into, or consume liquor in, or to supply liquor for consumption in, that restaurant in contravention of this section commits an offence.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        [Section 51 amended by No. 12 of 1998 s. 34; No. 73 of 2006 s. 110.]



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