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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions - Exemptions

12: Homestays exempted

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“Selling alcohol to guests in your home is allowed if you live there and have 10 or fewer guests.”

If you let guests stay in your home for money, you might be able to sell them alcohol. You can do this if you live in the house and it is mainly used as your home. You are allowed to sell alcohol to your guests if there are 10 or fewer of them staying with you.

You do not need a special licence to sell alcohol to your guests in this situation. You can sell them alcohol to drink while they are staying with you. This rule applies even if you do not have a licence to sell alcohol, as long as you are selling it to your guests who are staying in your home.

You can find more information about this rule by looking at the related law from 1989. This law helps explain how you can sell alcohol to guests in your home. It is an important rule to follow if you want to let guests stay in your home and sell them alcohol.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Exemptions

12Homestays exempted

  1. This subsection applies to an individual person who—

  2. occupies premises that are used exclusively or principally as his or her home or residence (or the home or residence of him or her and his or her family); and
    1. for reward, from time to time lets guests stay on the premises or other premises nearby.

      1. Even if he or she does not hold a licence (or a licence of the appropriate kind) for the premises concerned, a person to whom subsection (1) applies may, in the course of or incidental to the stay of not more than 10 guests on the premises, sell or supply alcohol to some or all of them for consumption on the premises.

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