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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Preliminary matters

3: Purpose

You could also call this:

“This part of the law is about making rules for selling and supplying alcohol to help keep our community safe.”

The purpose of Parts 1 to 3 and the schedules of this Act is to help the community. You will see a new system of control over the sale and supply of alcohol. This system has two main parts: it must be reasonable and its administration must help achieve the object of this Act.

The new system aims to reform the law relating to the sale, supply, and consumption of alcohol. This reform will help the law’s effect and administration achieve the object of this Act. You can find more information about this in Parts 1 to 3 and the schedules of this Act.

The characteristics of the new system are important. It must be reasonable and its administration must help achieve the object of this Act. This will help the community as a whole.

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Part 1 Preliminary matters

3Purpose

  1. The purpose of Parts 1 to 3 and the schedules of this Act is, for the benefit of the community as a whole,—

  2. to put in place a new system of control over the sale and supply of alcohol, with the characteristics stated in subsection (2); and
    1. to reform more generally the law relating to the sale, supply, and consumption of alcohol so that its effect and administration help to achieve the object of this Act.

      1. The characteristics of the new system are that—

      2. it is reasonable; and
        1. its administration helps to achieve the object of this Act.