Liquor Amendment (Drinking Water) Regulation 2002 (NSW)

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Liquor Amendment (Drinking Water) New South Wales

Regulation 2002

under the

Liquor Act 1982

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Liquor Act 1982.

J. RICHARD FACE, M.P.,

Minister for Gaming and Racing

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Liquor Regulation 1996 to make it a condition of a liquor licence (except an off-licence) that drinking water must be available for patrons at or near each point of service of liquor and that it must be supplied free of charge or sold at a price not exceeding a reasonable price. The Regulation authorises the Minister to issue guidelines as to what constitutes a reasonable price for water.

This Regulation is made under the Liquor Act 1982, including section 20 and section 156 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 13 of 10 January 2003, page 101	Page 1
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Clause 1	Liquor Amendment (Drinking Water) Regulation 2002

Liquor Amendment (Drinking Water)
Regulation 2002

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Liquor Amendment (Drinking Water)
Regulation 2002.

2 Amendment of Liquor Regulation 1996

The Liquor Regulation 1996 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Liquor Amendment (Drinking Water) Regulation 2002

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 86F

Insert as clause 86F:

86F	Drinking water to be available where liquor served
(1) Every licence (except an off-licence) is subject to a condition that, at all times at which liquor is sold or supplied on the licensed premises, drinking water for consumption by patrons of the licensed premises:

(a)	must be available to be sold or supplied to patrons at or near the point of service at which, or by the same means of service by which, liquor is sold or supplied on the licensed premises, and
(b)	must be supplied to patrons free of charge or sold to patrons at a price that does not exceed a reasonable price for that water.

(2) The Minister may from time to time issue guidelines to licensees as to what constitutes a reasonable price for drinking water. A reasonable price set by or determined in accordance with those guidelines is taken to be a reasonable price for the purposes of subclause (1).

BY AUTHORITY

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