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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 on issue of off-licences

35: Exception for certain complementary sales

You could also call this:

"Some shops can sell alcohol without mainly selling food if the alcohol matches what they sell."

The licensing authority can let a shop have an off-licence if you are not mainly selling food there. You need to show that alcohol would go well with the things you sell in your shop. The licensing authority must be happy with this.

If the licensing authority says it is okay, you can get an off-licence even if the shop is not the kind mentioned in section 32(1). This rule is more important than what section 32(1) says, but section 36 is more important than this rule. You should look at section 36 to see what it says.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Restrictions on issue of off-licences

35Exception for certain complementary sales

  1. The licensing authority or licensing committee concerned may direct that an off-licence should be issued for premises not of a kind described in section 32(1) if it is satisfied that—

  2. the premises are a shop, but not a shop where the principal business carried on is the sale of food (whether food of a particular kind or kinds, or a range of food); and
    1. alcohol would be an appropriate complement to goods of the kind sold (or to be sold) in the shop.

      1. Subsection (1) overrides section 32(1) but is overridden by section 36.

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