Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1979
Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1979
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Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1979
Public Act |
1979 No 67 |
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Date of assent |
30 November 1979 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Sale of Liquor Act 1962
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1979, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Sale of Liquor Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Power to exclude persons from public bar
(1)
Section 188 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (a), the following paragraph:
“(aa)
Any person whom he has reasonable cause to believe will, if admitted to the premises, engage in violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly conduct, or provoke other persons to engage in such conduct on the premises:”.
(2)
The said section 188 is hereby further amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (3), and substituting the following paragraph:
“(b)
Is violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly, or whom the licensee or manager believes on reason-able grounds will, if permitted to remain on the premises, engage in violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly conduct, or provoke other persons to enage in such conduct on the premises; or”.
(3)
The said section 188 is hereby further amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (4), and substituting the following paragraph:
“(b)
The person is, or has on previous occasions been, violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly, or the licensee or manager or employee believes on reasonable grounds that the person will, if supplied with liquor or (as the case may be) with more liquor than he has already had, engage in violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly con-duct, or provoke other persons to engage in such conduct on the premises:”.
(4)
The said section 188 is hereby further amended by inserting in paragraph (a) of subsection (5), after the word “under”
, the words “paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of”
.
(5)
The said section 188 is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (5), the following subsection:
“(5A)
Every person commits an offence against this Act who, having been refused admission under paragraph (aa) of subsection (1) of this section, on the same day enters or attempts to enter the premises, and any member of the Police may arrest him without warrant.”
3 Licensee may close public bar in event of fighting or serious disorder
Section 288A of the principal Act (as inserted by section 18 of the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1976) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:
“(1A)
Where fighting or serious disorder breaks out, or there are reasonable grounds for believing that fighting or serious disorder is about to break out, in any public bar on any premises specified in subsection (1) of this section, the licensee or manager may close the bar, and order any person to leave the premises.”
4 Booth licence may be granted for cricket match in no-licence district
(1)
Section 232(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “race meeting”
, the words “or cricket match”
.
(2)
Section 119(2) of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by inserting, after the words “race meeting”
, the words “or cricket match”
.
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.
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