Registered Clubs Amendment (Drinking Water) Regulation 2002 (NSW)

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Registered Clubs Amendment New South Wales

(Drinking Water) Regulation 2002

under the

Registered Clubs Act 1976

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Registered Clubs Act 1976.

J. RICHARD FACE, M.P.,

Minister for Gaming and Racing

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Registered Clubs Regulation 1996 to make it a condition of a club’s registration 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 Registered Clubs Act 1976, including section 9A and section 73 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 13 of 10 January 2003, page 111	Page 1
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Clause 1	Registered Clubs Amendment (Drinking Water) Regulation 2002

Registered Clubs Amendment (Drinking Water)
Regulation 2002

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Registered Clubs Amendment (Drinking Water)
Regulation 2002.

2 Amendment of Registered Clubs Regulation 1996

The Registered Clubs Regulation 1996 is amended as set out in

Schedule 1.

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Registered Clubs Amendment (Drinking Water) Regulation 2002

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 50B

Insert after clause 50A:

50B	Drinking water to be available where liquor served
(1) It is a condition of the certificate of registration of a club that, at all times at which liquor is sold or supplied on the premises of the club, drinking water for consumption by persons to whom liquor may be sold or supplied:

(a)	must be available to be sold or supplied 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 premises, and
(b)	must be supplied free of charge or sold at a price that does not exceed a reasonable price for that water.

(2) The Minister may from time to time issue guidelines to registered clubs 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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