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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions - Requirements on holders of on-licences and club licences

54: Help with and information about transport to be available

You could also call this:

“Get help with finding a safe way home from a place that sells alcohol”

When you are at a place that sells alcohol, the person in charge must make sure you can get help with transport. You must be able to get free and accurate information about how to get from the premises to another place at any time you are there. The person in charge must have staff available to give you this information.

The staff must be able to tell you about the different ways you can get from the premises to another place. They must give you this information for free when you ask for it. You should be able to easily find the staff and ask them for help with transport.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Requirements on holders of on-licences and club licences

54Help with and information about transport to be available

  1. The holder of an on-licence or club licence must ensure that, at any time customers are lawfully on the premises,—

  2. there is readily available to the customers, free, comprehensive, and accurate information about the forms of transport from the premises that are available at that time; and
    1. there are on the premises, and readily accessible to the customers, staff able to give them comprehensive and accurate information about the forms of transport from the premises that are available at that time; and
      1. those staff will on demand give any customer appropriate advice free.