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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

257: Offences relating to evidence of age documents

You could also call this:

“Breaking the law with fake or wrong ID at places that sell alcohol”

You commit an offence if you show a fake evidence of age document to someone at a licensed premises. This includes a document that is not real or one that has false information about your age or date of birth. You also commit an offence if you show someone else’s evidence of age document.

You commit an offence if you sell, hire, lend, or give someone a fake evidence of age document. You also commit an offence if you change the information on a real evidence of age document to make it false.

You commit an offence if you sell, hire, lend, or give someone an evidence of age document with false information or one that belongs to someone else, unless you have a good reason for doing so. If you commit one of these offences, you can be fined up to $2,000. You can compare this to s 172 for more information.

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

257Offences relating to evidence of age documents

  1. A person commits an offence who presents to the licensee or a manager of any licensed premises, or to an employee of the licensee,—

  2. a document that purports to be an approved evidence of age document but is not; or
    1. a genuine approved evidence of age document relating to the person but containing (whether because false information was given to the person issuing it, or information it contained when it was issued was later falsified) false information purporting to relate to the person's age or date of birth; or
      1. a genuine approved evidence of age document containing information relating to some other person.

        1. A person commits an offence who—

        2. sells, hires, lends, or gives to any other person a document that purports to be an approved evidence of age document but is not; or
          1. falsifies the information on a genuine approved evidence of age document relating to the age or date of birth of the person to whom the document relates.

            1. A person commits an offence who, without reasonable excuse, sells, hires, lends, or gives to any other person—

            2. a genuine approved evidence of age document relating to the other person but containing falsified information purporting to relate to the other person's age or date of birth; or
              1. a genuine approved evidence of age document containing information relating to a person other than that other person.

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

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