(1)No provision of this Act as to the sale, supply, purchase, delivery or consumption of alcoholic liquor, except subsection (2) below, and no enactment requiring the authority of a wholesaler’s excise licence for the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor, shall have effect in relation to alcoholic liquor in confectionery which—
(a)does not contain alcoholic liquor in a proportion greater than 200 millilitres of liquor [F1of a strength of 57% of ethyl alcohol by volume (at a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius)] per kilogramme of the confectionery, and
(b)either consists of separate pieces weighing not more than 50 grammes or is designed to be broken into such pieces for the purpose of consumption.
(2)Alcoholic liquor in confectionery shall not be sold to a person under 16, and if any person knowingly contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by S.I. 1979/1755, reg. 3(1)