Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988

Restaurant not to contain bar.

16.—(1) A restaurant in respect of which a special restaurant licence has been granted under this Act shall not contain a bar.

(2) Where intoxicating liquor is sold or made available for purchase in a restaurant which does not comply with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the holder of the special restaurant licence in respect of that restaurant shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding—

(a) £150, in the case of a first such offence, or

(b) £350, in the case of a second or any subsequent such offence,

and the offence shall be deemed, for the purposes of Part III (which relates to the endorsement of licences) of the Act of 1927, to be an offence to which that Part of that Act applies.