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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Local alcohol policies

78: Territorial authorities must produce draft policy

You could also call this:

“Councils must create a plan to manage alcohol sales in their area”

If you want to make rules about alcohol in your area, you must create a draft policy. When you make this policy, you have to think about your district plan and the number of alcohol licences in your area. You also have to consider the location and opening hours of premises with these licences.

You need to look at areas where drinking alcohol in public is not allowed and the types of people who live in or visit your district. You must think about how healthy the people in your district are and what problems alcohol is causing. For example, people who have holiday homes in your district are considered residents.

Before you make a draft policy, you must talk to the Police, inspectors, and Medical Officers of Health and ask for their information about alcohol-related problems in your district. They must give you the information you ask for if you need it to make your policy.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Local alcohol policies

78Territorial authorities must produce draft policy

  1. A territorial authority that wishes to have a local alcohol policy must produce a draft policy.

  2. When producing a draft policy, a territorial authority must have regard to—

  3. the objectives and policies of its district plan; and
    1. the number of licences of each kind held for premises in its district, and the location and opening hours of each of the premises; and
      1. any areas in which bylaws prohibiting alcohol in public places are in force; and
        1. the demography of the district's residents; and
          1. the demography of people who visit the district as tourists or holidaymakers; and
            1. the overall health indicators of the district's residents; and
              1. the nature and severity of the alcohol-related problems arising in the district.

                1. For the purposes of subsection (2), a district's residents include people who have holiday homes there.

                2. The authority must not produce a draft policy without having consulted the Police, inspectors, and Medical Officers of Health, each of whom must, if asked by the authority to do so, make reasonable efforts to give the authority any information they hold relating to any of the matters stated in subsection (2)(c) to (g).

                Notes
                • Section 78(2)(a): amended, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).