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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Offences and closure of premises - Other offences on licensed premises

253: Allowing disorderly conduct on licensed premises

You could also call this:

“Don't let people misbehave in places that sell alcohol or you could be fined.”

If you are in charge of a place where alcohol is sold, you must not let people behave in a violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly way on the premises. You commit an offence if you allow this kind of behaviour to happen. If you are found guilty, you can be fined up to $10,000.

If someone in charge of a licensed premises is charged with this offence, they can defend themselves by showing that they took reasonable steps to deal with the situation as soon as they knew about it. This means they either moved the person to a safe place on the premises or removed them from the premises.

You can find more information about this by looking at the related section of the law.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Offences and closure of premises: Other offences on licensed premises

253Allowing disorderly conduct on licensed premises

  1. The licensee or a manager of any licensed premises who allows any violent, quarrelsome, insulting, or disorderly conduct to take place on the licensed premises commits an offence.

  2. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine of not more than $10,000.

  3. It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) if the defendant satisfies the court that, as soon as the defendant or any employee of the licensee became aware of the situation, reasonable steps were taken in respect of each person involved in the conduct concerned either—

  4. to take the person to a place of safety on the licensed premises; or
    1. to remove the person from the licensed premises.

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