SELEBI-PHIKWE TOWN COUNCIL (RETAIL SALES OF TRADITIONAL BEER) BYE-LAWS

(under regulations 34 and 35)

(17th September, 1971)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

    BYE-LAW

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Beer to be sold on licensed premises

    4.    Consumption on licensed premises

    5.    Applications for licences and renewals

    6.    Grant and renewal of licences

    7.    Period and renewal of licences

    8.    Lapse on change of occupier

    9.    Duplicate licences

    10.    Breach of conditions

    11.    Revocation of licence

    12.    Fees

    13.    Appeal and review

    14.    Permitted hours

    15.    Sanitary conditions to be maintained

    16.    Restrictions on sale of traditional beer to young persons, etc.

    17.    Persons to sell on licensed premises

    18.    Drunkenness, etc. not permitted on licensed premises

    19.    Rights of licensee to refuse admission, etc.

    20.    Premises not to be a brothel, etc.

    21.    Structural alterations to licensed premises

    22.    Inspection of premises by police, etc.

    23.    Closing of licensed premises

    24.    Criminal responsibility of employer and employee

    25.    Display of licence and bye-laws

    26.    Penalties

        Schedule - Licence to Use Premises for the Retail Sale of Traditional Beer

S.I. 108, 1971,
S.I. 37, 1973.

1.    Citation

    These Bye-laws may be cited as the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council (Retail Sales of Traditional Beer) Bye-laws*.

*>Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "council" means the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council;

    "licensed" means licensed in terms of these Bye-laws;

    "licensee" means the occupier of licensed premises;

    "lolwapa" means a customary residential precinct;

    "township" means the area of jurisdiction of Selebi-Phikwe Town Council;

    "traditional beer" means—

    (a)    beer brewed from sorghum-meal or a mixture of sorghum-meal and mealie-meal by the fermentation of malted sorghum, but excluding the liquors commonly known as "ila", "kabidikama" or "banyana", or any beer brewed as described to which sugar, honey or syrup has been added or which is mixed with or fortified or adulterated by any other liquor or substance, or any other of the liquors commonly known as "khadi"; or

    (b)    any other liquor which the Minister may by order published in the Gazette, declare to be traditional beer for the purposes of the Liquor Act (Cap. 43:11).

3.    Beer to be sold on licensed premises

    (1) No person shall sell or buy any traditional beer by retail within the township except in a beerhall conducted by the council, or on premises licensed in terms of these Bye-laws: