AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LIQUOR ORDINANCE 1955

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 9 of 1955

	This Ordinance varies the trading hours in the Territory.  From the 1st October 1955, trading hours will be –

	(a)	from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for hotels, clubs and restaurants,

	(b)	ordinary shop trading hours for grocers, and

(c)	in the case of booths the hours specified by the Registrar or the Magistrate in granting each particular application.

	The minimum price of a meal with which liquor may be served in a hotel, club or restaurant has been raised from 2/6 to 5/‑.

	Restaurants will be able to serve any type of liquor, not only light wines and malted liquors, as at present.