Liquor Licence Amendment Bill 2014 Tabled
The Liquor Licence Amendment Bill 2014 was tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday [Feb 14], which seeks to make ID checks mandatory before selling alcohol or allowing entry into licensed premises.
It also seeks to create offences for situations including failing to examine ID before the sale of intoxicating liquor to anyone who appears to be a minor, and allowing entry to a licensed premises without checking ID.
The Bill’s Explanatory Memorandum said, “This Bill seeks to amend the Liquor Licence Act 1974 (“the principal Act”) to make it mandatory (1) to examine the photographic identification as proof of age of every person who appears to be a minor before supplying or selling alcohol; (2) to examine photographic identification of every person before allowing entry to certain licensed premises; (3) for the holder of a Restaurant Licence whose licensed premises operates as a bar/club to check the photographic identification of a person who appears to be a minor seeking to enter the licensed premises at a specified time; and to create the offences for: failing to examine photographic identification before the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor to anyone who appears to be a minor, allowing entry to a licensed premises without examining the photographic identification, the holder of a Restaurant Licence failing to examine the photographic identification of any person who appears to be a minor seeking entry to the premises after 11:00 p.m. and providing a false or altered photographic identification.”
The Liquor Licence Amendment Bill 2014 [PDF here]
Wow ,ID checks initiated only 400years after the first sale, greased lightening.
So we want to make marijuana easier to obtain and use, but alcohol harder to obtain and use?
Dont compare alcohol with marijuana! Cuz alcohol will lose by far!
Does this make it so every license premises will now have to have a bouncer on the door?
If so that’s stupid. It’s like trying to kill a cockroach with a hammer.
The one problem I see with this was is that ID must be requested from those that “appear” to be minors which is subjective.
Instead of asking a bartender to try and figure out if an individual is 18 BEFORE you ID them, it should state that, ID MUST be requested from any individual that appears to be under 30 years of age! That way their is no margin of error and no excuse for someone to say that he or she “looked” 18!
Intentional loopholes.
Glad to see someone else caught that. Like an obvious loophole
The problem here is “appears to be a minor”…..Some of these 16 year Olds look 30 after makeup..etc….Instead of prosecuting the minor with an offense they go after the server…….why not prosecute the person who leaves their house open instead of the person trying to steal their belongings while we are at it??