Tackling alcohol head on
National is committed to addressing New Zealand’s binge-drinking culture. We are determined to reduce alcohol-related harm – including crime and disorder, and public health problems. This is important part of the Government’s work to make New Zealand safer for all of our communities.
Our alcohol reform package empowers communities and zeroes in on where the harm from alcohol is happening – particularly around youth – to help control the supply of alcohol, reduce demand, and limit alcohol-related problems.
We’ve also been conscious to do this in a way which doesn’t unfairly penalise responsible and moderate drinkers.
We want people to have a greater say about when and where alcohol is sold in their communities. Our bill will empower local communities to have more input into those decisions.
Councils will be able to develop local alcohol policies to restrict or extend trading hours of licensed premises, limit locations and density of licences, and impose conditions on licensed premises – such as one-way doors.
We are also reducing exposure to alcohol, supermarkets and grocery stores will only be able to display and advertise alcohol in a single, non-prominent area of their store.
And tighter restrictions on alcohol advertising and promotions will prevent practices such as offering free gifts with purchase of alcohol. The bill also makes it an offence to advertise discounts of more than 25% on alcohol outside of licensed premises.
We want parents to have better tools to help them, so they don’t feel powerless to moderate the way their young ones deal with alcohol outside the family home.
Parental consent will now be required before alcohol can be supplied to young people, and their drinking will require adult supervision. It will be an offence to supply a person under 18 years of age with alcohol, without the express consent of their parent or guardian.
This will mean the good parenting of responsible adults cannot be so easily undone by the irresponsible actions of some other parents.
And the need for express consent gives police a tool to intervene in unsupervised, or poorly supervised parties, such as after-ball functions. Also, problem areas such as supermarket car parks and school grounds will be able to be covered by liquor bans in a local policy.
We know that legislation alone will not turn around our binge-drinking problem. But National’s reforms can, and will, support a culture change by helping to control the availability and proliferation of alcohol.
National is committed to addressing New Zealand’s binge-drinking culture. We are determined to reduce alcohol-related harm – including crime and disorder, and public health problems. This is important part of the Government’s work to make New Zealand safer for all of our communities. Our alcohol...
National is committed to addressing New Zealand’s binge-drinking culture. We are determined to reduce alcohol-related harm – including crime and disorder, and public health problems. This is important part of the Government’s work to make New Zealand safer for all of our communities.
Our alcohol reform package empowers communities and zeroes in on where the harm from alcohol is happening – particularly around youth – to help control the supply of alcohol, reduce demand, and limit alcohol-related problems.
We’ve also been conscious to do this in a way which doesn’t unfairly penalise responsible and moderate drinkers.
We want people to have a greater say about when and where alcohol is sold in their communities. Our bill will empower local communities to have more input into those decisions.
Councils will be able to develop local alcohol policies to restrict or extend trading hours of licensed premises, limit locations and density of licences, and impose conditions on licensed premises – such as one-way doors.
We are also reducing exposure to alcohol, supermarkets and grocery stores will only be able to display and advertise alcohol in a single, non-prominent area of their store.
And tighter restrictions on alcohol advertising and promotions will prevent practices such as offering free gifts with purchase of alcohol. The bill also makes it an offence to advertise discounts of more than 25% on alcohol outside of licensed premises.
We want parents to have better tools to help them, so they don’t feel powerless to moderate the way their young ones deal with alcohol outside the family home.
Parental consent will now be required before alcohol can be supplied to young people, and their drinking will require adult supervision. It will be an offence to supply a person under 18 years of age with alcohol, without the express consent of their parent or guardian.
This will mean the good parenting of responsible adults cannot be so easily undone by the irresponsible actions of some other parents.
And the need for express consent gives police a tool to intervene in unsupervised, or poorly supervised parties, such as after-ball functions. Also, problem areas such as supermarket car parks and school grounds will be able to be covered by liquor bans in a local policy.
We know that legislation alone will not turn around our binge-drinking problem. But National’s reforms can, and will, support a culture change by helping to control the availability and proliferation of alcohol.
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