Gday,
Those of you travelling through the Centre in the near future might want to have a read of this to save any confusion or disappointment. Quite regularly while at the liquor
shop I hear irate tourist going off about not being able to buy their plonk to take on there trip or being told to come back later and so
forth....
So hear are the latest regulations so you don't get caught out.
Takeaway alcohol
Monday to Friday, all venues, from 2.00pm – 9.00pm
Saturday and public holidays, all venues from 10.00am – 9.00pm
Sundays – takeaways attached to pubs and clubs only, 12noon – 9.00pm
In pubs
Alcohol with content over 3% must not be sold before 11.30am from Monday to Friday.
• The takeaway sale of all wine products is restricted to container size of no larger than
one (1) litre for fortified wine and no larger than two (2) litres for other wine products.
• Sale of fortified wine and cask wine for consumption off premises is restricted to one item
of either product per person per day and is only permitted to be sold during the last three
(3) scheduled trading hours of each day.
From August 1 2007 public areas in
Alice Springs will be off-limits for drinking alcohol.
That means, you can’t drink alcohol in public parks, streets, the river bed or the mall – basically
any public area within the boundaries of the following declared area:
• North to near the Motor Vehicle Registry;
• East to include
Ross Highway and the former Chateau Hornsby;
• South to the
Adelaide turnoff; and
• West to include White Gums and Ilparpa.
This entire area is now called a Public Restricted Area.
In early 2008 an electronic photographic identification system (photo ID) will be implemented
in all licensed stores and public hotel takeaway outlets in
Alice Springs. All people who
purchase takeaway alcohol in these stores will be required to show photo ID.
The system:
• Targets problem drinkers.
• Monitors local alcohol restrictions such as limits on the sale of cask wine or port.
• Collects information required by the Australian Government on alcohol sales of $100 and over.
• Makes it harder for underage drinkers to buy alcohol.
• Accepts many forms of photo ID, including driver’s licences, passports, 18+ cards and
Tangentyere cards.
What this means is...
If you planning to leave Alice to go bush for a week and want to take, say 3 bottles of port, you need to start buying your grog 4 days before you leave. Going from one
shop to another wont work because it is registered with the ID system.
Hope this saves some of you some grief...
Cheers
Hairy