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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions - Restrictions relating to trading hours

46: No sale or supply outside permitted trading hours: all licences

You could also call this:

"Alcohol can't be sold outside allowed trading hours, except in some special cases."

If you have a licence to sell alcohol, you must make sure you do not sell or supply alcohol outside the allowed trading hours. You can find out what these hours are for your licence. There is an exception to this rule, which is explained in section 173 of the Gambling Act 2003. If you are staying in a hotel room, you can still buy alcohol from the mini-bar in your room, even if it is outside the allowed trading hours, as long as you are the guest who booked the room or you are a person the guest has allowed to be in the room. You must follow the rules about trading hours to ensure you are selling or supplying alcohol legally.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Restrictions relating to trading hours

46No sale or supply outside permitted trading hours: all licences

  1. The holder of a licence must ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied on the premises outside the permitted trading hours.

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to section 173 of the Gambling Act 2003.

  3. Subsection (1) does not apply where any alcohol previously placed in an area or unit (commonly known as a mini-bar) of a hotel room is, in that room, sold or supplied to—

  4. a person (a guest) who is, under an agreement, entitled to occupy that room; or
    1. a person whom that guest permits, consistently with that agreement, to be in that room.

      Notes
      • Section 46(3): inserted, on , by section 4 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 131).