Section 11Part 0 —
Hours for sale of alcoholic liquor
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Save as otherwise specifically provided, no licensee other than a hotel or restaurant licensee shall dispose of intoxicating liquor on Sundays, Christmas Day or Good Friday.
Every licence shall state the times during which the licensed premises shall be and remain open to the public for the sale of intoxicating liquor, and such time shall be known with relation to such licence as specified hours.
A Board may, from time to time, by Notice published in the Gazette, specify such hours, with reference to each class of licence, when intoxicating liquor may not be sold and, subject to subsection (1), all other hours shall be known as permitted hours:
Provided that, on the application of a licensee, the Chairperson of a Board may, subject to subsection (1), extend such hours in a particular case and the hours covered by any such extension shall, during the duration of such extension, be deemed to be permitted hours for the purposes of this Law.
Every licensee is permitted, save in exceptional and unforeseen circumstances, to open the licensed premises for the sale of intoxicating liquor to the public at any time during the specified hours and may, in addition, open the licensed premises at any time during the permitted hours.
A licensee who sells or disposes of intoxicating liquor other than during permitted hours commits an offence.
Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the Board is satisfied, having regard to the situation of and the construction and design of the premises that it is in the public interest so to do, the Board may permit licensed premises the subject of a retail licence or a package licence or any part thereof as they may specify to be opened for the disposal of intoxicating liquor on Sundays during such hours as the Board may, in each particular case, determine.
Hours covered by permission granted by the Board under subsection (6) shall be endorsed upon the licence and are deemed to be permitted hours for the purposes of this Law.
A Board may exempt, in whole or in part, from subsection (1) —
any bar serving an airport; and
any duty-free liquor shop located at an airport, in respect of sales to outgoing passengers only.
During the last ten minutes of each period of permitted hours no intoxicating liquor may be supplied to or received by any person in premises licensed under a retail licence, a hotel licence, a temporary licence, or a restaurant licence but persons already lawfully in possession of intoxicating liquor may consume it during that period; thereafter any intoxicating liquor in the actual or constructive possession of any person in such licensed premises other than the licensee shall be deemed to have been supplied and obtained there during prohibited hours and such person and the licensee shall have committed an offence, and such liquor lying in the licensed premises, other than in storage areas not accessible to the public in permitted hours, shall be disposed of as waste by the licensee who shall have committed an offence if he fails so to do:
Provided that a bona fide guest, lawfully resident in the licensed premises, may, at any time, possess and consume intoxicating liquor in any part of the licensed premises reserved for the use of guests and not open to the general public.