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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

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

56: Display of signs: on-licences, off-licences

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“Alcohol sellers must display signs showing their opening hours at every main entrance.”

If you have a licence to sell alcohol, you must display a sign at each main entrance to your premises. The sign must show the ordinary hours when your premises are open for selling alcohol. You must attach the sign to the inside or outside of your premises so people can easily read it when they are outside the entrance.

You need to do this for each main entrance, and the sign must be there all the time. If you have a special licence, like one endorsed under section 37, the sign must show when your premises are open for people to drink alcohol.

The sign is important because it helps people know when they can buy or drink alcohol at your premises.

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

56Display of signs: on-licences, off-licences

  1. The holder of an on-licence issued for premises or an off-licence (other than an off-licence issued for premises for which a club licence is held) must ensure that for each principal entrance to the premises there is displayed at all times a sign attached to the inside or outside of the premises, so as to be easily read by people immediately outside the entrance, stating the ordinary hours of business during which the premises are open for the sale of alcohol (or, in the case of an on-licence endorsed under section 37, open for the consumption of alcohol).

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