LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 51
LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 51
51 . Unlicensed restaurants, supply of liquor in
[(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: a fine of $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: a fine of $2 000.
[Section 51 amended: No. 12 of 1998 s. 34; No. 73
of 2006 s. 110; No. 56 of 2010 s. 69.]