EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LIQUOR ORDINANCE (NO. 2) 1948

No. 5 of 1948

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	The proposed amendment of the Liquor Ordinance of the Australian Capital Territory is to provide for the issue by the Licensing Court of an additional type of licence to be known as a Grocer’s Licence.  This licence will be for the sale in grocers’ stores of bottled liquor in quantities of not less than one gallon at one and the same time.

	The amendment will make it an offence for liquor to be drunk in the gardens or grounds of an hotel or of other licensed premises.

	It will also provide that the Minister may restrict the issue of licences where that is necessary to conform to the Commonwealth policy for the administration, construction or development of the Territory.

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