6Application

6 Application (1) This Act applies in relation to the following substances (liquor): (a) a beverage or other substance intended to be ingested, whether liquid, solid or gaseous, that contains more than 1.15% of ethyl alcohol by volume; (b) a substance that is held out to be a beverage or ingestible substance specified in paragraph (a); (c) a substance prescribed by regulation as liquor. (2) This Act does not apply in relation to ethyl alcohol used as a medicine or for medicinal purposes by, or under the direction of, a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the professions of medicine or pharmacy. (3) Despite subsection (1), Part 6, Division 5, applies to a substance that: (a) contains more than 1.15% of ethyl alcohol by volume; and (b) is not intended to be ingested. (4) The following methods are to be used to determine the volume of ethyl alcohol in a substance: (a) for liquids and solids – measurement is to be made at 20°C; (b) for gases or vapours – measurement is to be made while the substance is in a liquid state at the highest temperature at which it is a liquid.