Part 1Provisions for Combatting Crime and Disorder
Chapter 2Provisions for combatting alcohol-related disorder
Other provisions for combatting alcohol-related disorder
30Sale of intoxicating liquor to a person under eighteen
1
In subsection (2) of section 169A of the Licensing Act 1964 (c. 26) (defence against charge of sale of intoxicating liquor to a person under eighteen) for the words from “to prove” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted
to prove—
a
that he believed that the person was not under eighteen; and
b
either that he had taken all reasonable steps to establish the person’s age or that nobody could reasonably have suspected from his appearance that the person was under eighteen.
2A
For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section a person shall be treated as having taken all reasonable steps to establish another person’s age if he asks the other person for evidence of his age unless it is shown that the evidence was such that no reasonable person would have been convinced by it.
2
The amendment made by this section does not apply to any sale of intoxicating liquor made before the coming into force of this section.