New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Liquor may be sold at international airports to passengers on aircraft departing from or arriving in New Zealand, being passengers who have attained the age of 18 years, but any liquor so sold shall not be delivered by or on behalf of the purchaser to any other person within New Zealand or consumed within New Zealand unless it has been entered by the passenger for home consumption in accordance with the Customs and Excise Act 1996.
(2) The Governor-General may, from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for either or both of the following purposes:
(a) prescribing the circumstances and conditions relating to the control of the sale of liquor at international airports to passengers on aircraft departing from or arriving in New Zealand, being passengers who have attained the age of 18 years:
(b) prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance with any provision of any regulations made under this section, and prescribing fines, not exceeding $1,000, that may, on summary conviction, be imposed in respect of any such offence.
(3) Every person who does any act in contravention of this section commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000.
(4) Nothing in the Sale of Liquor Act Act 1989 shall apply to the sale of liquor pursuant to the authority of this section or of any regulations made under this section.
Compare: 1964 No 68 s 25; 1989 No 146 s 2
Section 96(1): amended, on 1 April 2000, by section 119 of the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 92).
Section 96(1): amended, on 1 October 1996, by section 289(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 (1996 No 27).
Section 96(2)(a): amended, on 1 April 2000, by section 119 of the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 92).
