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Liquor Licensing Act 1997
Part 3Licences
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Part 3—Licences
Division 1—Requirement to hold licence
29—Requirement to hold licence
(1) A person who sells liquor without being licensed under this Act to do so (or who sells liquor under a licence that is suspended) is guilty of an offence.
(2) An occupier or person in charge of premises on which liquor is sold in contravention of subsection (1) who knowingly permits the sale is guilty of an offence.
(3) If a prescribed person sells liquor to another person and—
(a) the prescribed person reasonably believes, or ought reasonably to believe, that the other person intends to sell the liquor in contravention of subsection (1); and
(b) that other person sells the liquor in contravention of subsection (1),
the prescribed person is guilty of an offence.
(a) a licensee; or
(b) a person employed or engaged by a licensee; or
(c) an agent of a licensee.
30—Cases where licence is not required
A licence is not required for the sale of liquor—
(a) where the liquor is sold for medicinal purposes—
(i) by a registered pharmaceutical chemist; or
(ii) by or on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist; or
(b) where the liquor is sold to a religious organisation or a representative of a religious organisation for sacramental or other similar religious purposes; or
(c) where the liquor is supplied in the course of an educational course declared by the Minister by notice in the Gazette to be an approved course for the purposes of this section; or
(d) where the liquor is sold in Parliament House by the proper authority; or
(e) where the liquor is an allowance supplied by the master of a ship to a member of the ship's crew; or
(f) where the liquor is supplied to a patient in a hospital by or under the authority of the body responsible for administering the hospital; or
(g) where the liquor is won as a prize in a game of skill or chance; or
(h) where the sale is exempted by the regulations from the application of this Act.
Division 2—Licences