Liquor (Amendment) Act 1991 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Liquor (Amendment) Act 1991

No. 76 of 1991

An Act to amend the Liquor Act 1975

[Notified in ACT Gazette S139:  11 December 1991]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Liquor (Amendment) Act 1991.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Liquor Act 1975.1

Insertion

3.  After section 83 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Consumption of liquor in certain public places

“84.  (1)  A person shall not consume liquor in a prescribed public place.

Penalty:  $400.

“(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the consumption of liquor—

(a)within 50 metres of licensed premises by a person using furniture or other facilities lawfully provided by the proprietor or lessee of those premises for that purpose; or

(b)in a place and during a period specified in a permit.

“(3)  In subsection (1)—

‘prescribed public place’ means a public place that—

(a)is, or is within 50 metres of, a bus interchange;

(b)is within 50 metres of a shop or licensed premises; or

(c)is declared by the regulations to be a public place to which this section applies.

“(4)  Regulations made for the purpose of paragraph (c) of the definition of ‘prescribed public place’ in subsection (3) may provide that a public place specified in the regulations shall be taken to be a public place to which this section applies only at specified times or during specified periods, and where the regulations so provide, subsection (1) applies in relation to that public place accordingly.”.

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NOTE

1. Ordinance No. 19, 1975 as amended by Nos. 6, 61 and 63, 1976; Nos. 53 and 66, 1977; Nos. 35 and 46, 1978; Nos. 10, 24 and 34, 1979; Nos. 59 and 87, 1982; No. 22, 1984; No. 41, 1986; Nos. 33 and 72, 1987; No. 27, 1988; Nos. 21 and 38, 1989; Acts Nos. 50 and 56, 1990; Commonwealth Act No. 116, 1981.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 11 September 1991]

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