South Australia

Liquor Licensing (Retail Sales) Amendment Bill 2005

A Bill For

An Act to amend the Liquor Licensing Act 1997.

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Liquor Licensing Act 1997

3 Amendment of section 37—Retail liquor merchant's licence

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Liquor Licensing (Retail Sales) Amendment Act 2005.

2—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Liquor Licensing Act 1997

3—Amendment of section 37—Retail liquor merchant's licence

Section 37(2)—delete subsection (2) (including the Exceptions) and substitute:

(2) It is a condition of a retail liquor merchant's licence that—

(a) the sole business conducted from the licensed premises is a retail liquor merchant's business; or

(b) the retail liquor merchant's business is conducted from the licensed premises as part of another acceptable business.

(3) The licensing authority may grant an exemption from the condition imposed by subsection (2) if satisfied that there is proper reason for doing so.

(4) In this section—

acceptable business means the business of a supermarket, delicatessen, convenience store or other similar business (but does not include a business of a kind excluded from the ambit of this definition by regulation);

retail liquor merchant's business means the business of selling liquor under a retail liquor merchant's licence and includes such a business that involves the sale of goods normally associated with the sale of liquor (eg glasses, decanters, cheeses and pates).