Catchment areas
A catchment area is somewhere that provides a relatively convenient source of alcohol within a few hours travel of a restricted area community. Particularly where there is no licensed premises within a restricted area community. Residents often purchase or order alcohol from nearby towns and return with it to their communities.
Most licensed premises in catchment areas have trading conditions placed on their licence to support alcohol restrictions and limit the amount of illicit alcohol that enters a restricted area.
The Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation has imposed strict licence conditions on the following licensed premises:
Special Conditioning for Licensed Premises
To complement the alcohol restrictions in Queensland, the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation places special conditions on surrounding licensed premises reducing the supply of alcohol to Indigenous communities.
Four basic conditions have been imposed on most licensed premises situated in catchment areas near Indigenous communities, including:
- no alcohol sales to taxi drivers who are acting as a third party
- no licensee can hold a patron's bank access cards
- a ban on the sale of pre-mixed spirits in containers exceeding two litres and all other liquor in containers exceeding four litres
- a ban on the sale of fortified wines, such as port, muscat and sherry, in glass flagons.
These conditions do not apply in Cairns, Townsville and Mt Isa because of practical difficulties in conditioning all licensed premises in these large cities.
Last reviewed 29 March 2011