Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions - Kinds of licence and their effect

17: Off-licences: sale and supply on licensed premises

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"Selling alcohol to take away from an off-licence, and rules for free or paid samples"

If you have an off-licence, you can sell alcohol on your premises for people to drink somewhere else. When your premises are open for selling alcohol to drink elsewhere, you can also give away free alcohol samples for people to drink on your premises. You can sell alcohol samples for people to drink on your premises if your premises are a winery cellar door, the sample is grape wine as defined in section 58(3), and each sample is no more than 35 millilitres of wine.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Kinds of licence and their effect

17Off-licences: sale and supply on licensed premises

  1. On the premises an off-licence is held for, the licensee can sell alcohol for consumption somewhere else.

  2. While the premises an off-licence is held for are open for the sale of alcohol for consumption somewhere else, the licensee can also do one or both of the following:

  3. supply alcohol free, as a sample, for consumption on the premises:
    1. sell alcohol, as a sample, for consumption on the premises, if—
      1. the premises are a winery cellar door; and
        1. the alcohol sample is grape wine (as defined in section 58(3)); and
          1. each sample contains no more than 35 millilitres of wine.
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          Notes
          • Section 17(2): replaced, on , by section 5 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Winery Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 29).