AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Liquor (Amendment) Act 1997
No. 4 of 1997
	
An Act to amend the Liquor Act 1975 and the Liquor (Amendment) Act 1996
[Notified in ACT Gazette S60: 5 March 1997]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Liquor (Amendment) Act 1997.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
Principal Act
3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Liquor Act 1975.1
Insertion
4.  After section 73 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Sexually explicit entertainment
“74.  (1)  A licensee or permit holder shall not permit sexually explicit entertainment on premises to which the licence or permit relates unless the premises are in a prescribed location.
Penalty:  50 penalty units.
“(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a room on licensed premises used for accommodation.
“(3)  In this section—
‘sexually explicit entertainment’ means any performance or other entertainment—
	(a)	in the course of which a person displays genitalia; or
	(b)	that includes sexual intercourse within the meaning of section 92 of the Crimes Act 1900;
and includes a performance or entertainment of a prescribed kind.”.
Amendment of Liquor (Amendment) Act 1996
5.  Section 8 of the Liquor (Amendment) Act 1996 is amended by omitting all the words after “effect” and substituting “until the expiration of 30 June 1997”.
	
NOTES
Principal Act
1.	Reprinted as at 31 January 1996.  See also Acts Nos. 8 and 44, 1996.
Penalty units
See section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 18 February 1997]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1997