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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences - Applications for licences

112: Compulsory conditions relating to display and promotion of alcohol in single area in supermarkets and grocery stores

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“Rules for displaying alcohol in supermarkets and grocery stores”

When you apply for a licence to sell alcohol in a supermarket or grocery store, there are rules to limit how much shoppers see alcohol displays and promotions. The people who give out licences must make sure the licence says where alcohol can be displayed and promoted in the store. This means the store can only display and promote alcohol in one area.

When a licence is renewed, the old rule about where alcohol can be displayed expires, but there is an exception that is explained in section 115(4). You need to know that the licensing authority or committee will decide on a new area for displaying alcohol when they renew the licence. The goal is to reduce how much shoppers are exposed to alcohol displays and promotions in supermarkets and grocery stores.

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Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences: Applications for licences

112Compulsory conditions relating to display and promotion of alcohol in single area in supermarkets and grocery stores

  1. The purpose of this section and sections 113 and 114 is to limit (so far as is reasonably practicable) the exposure of shoppers in supermarkets and grocery stores to displays and promotions of alcohol, and advertisements for alcohol.

  2. The licensing authority or licensing committee concerned must ensure that, when it issues or renews an off-licence for premises that are a supermarket or grocery store, it imposes on the licence a condition describing one area within the premises as a permitted area for the display and promotion of alcohol.

  3. On the renewal of an off-licence for premises that are a supermarket or grocery store, any single-area condition imposed when the licence was issued (or was last renewed) expires.

  4. Subsection (3) is subject to section 115(4).