Licensed hours, age and ID checks

The till checks the liquor rules it can know, every time alcohol goes on a sale: the time, the customer's age where the club holds it, and whether takeaway is allowed. When it refuses, it says why. It cannot see who is standing at the bar, so checking ID is still the job of whoever is serving.

Licensed hours

• Alcohol is sold only within the club's licensed hours for the day. Outside them, alcohol buttons are greyed with No alcohol now, or No alcohol until 4pm before the day's hours begin.
• The bar at the top of the till shows the hours: Licensed till 11pm, Bar opens 4pm, or No alcohol today.
• Hours that run past midnight belong to the day they started.
• A date can have other hours, such as an extended licence for an event or a day the bar closes early. On that date they replace the weekday's hours.
• No manager can override licensed hours.

Under 18

• A member whose date of birth shows them under 18 cannot be sold alcohol. Their card on the till says Under 18, and alcohol is greyed for them.
• Alcohol cannot be charged to their account or paid with prepaid credit.
• A member with no date of birth on record is taken to be an adult.

Checking ID

The first time alcohol goes on a sale, the till asks Who is this sale for?. Under the choices it says, for a guest or a visitor: check ID if they look under 25. The reminder can be switched off on POS settings.

Takeaway

• A takeaway product, such as a six-pack to take home, is sold only to a current member on a member's sale. For anyone else its button says Members only.
• Under a restricted club licence, takeaway alcohol cannot be sold at all.

The kind of sale

Each sale with alcohol is marked Member, Guest, Visitor or Function. The club's records then show what was sold to members and what to others, which the ATO's mutuality rules for a club's income tax ask about. See Member and visitor income.