AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LIQUOR ORDINANCE (NO.2) 1956

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 8 of 1956

	This Ordinance amends the Liquor Ordinance 1929-1955 for the following purposes:-
(1)	To provide that trading hours for licensed clubs be unrestricted.
(2)	To widen the existing provisions dealing with the hours during which liquor may be served with meals, in the manner set out below:-
Present Hours			Amended Hours
	Restaurants
	Mondays to 		10 a.m. to 			noon to midnight.
	Saturdays		  10 p.m.
	Sundays &		No trading			  noon to 10 p.m.
	Christmas		   hours.
	    Day

	Hotels
	Mondays to		10 a.m. to			   10 a.m.
	Saturdays		   10 p.m.			to midnight

	Sundays &		12.30 p.m. to			   noon to 
	Christmas		     2 p.m.			  10 p.m.
	    Day			6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

(3)	To allow a period of 10 minutes after 10 p.m. during which liquor sold on the premises of a licensed hotel may be consumed and the bar cleared.
(4)	To allow a similar period of 10 minutes after the expiration of the time allowed under a special permit, during which period liquor supplied during the time of the permit may be consumed.