A.L.A.C. seeks limit
PA Wellington The minimum drinking age should be set at 20, without any exceptions, the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council told the select committee yesterday. A clause in the bill appeared, for example, to allow parents to buy a glass of wine for their teen-age children in a family or unrestricted area of licensed premises such as a restaurant. The council recommended the clause be
redrafted because it could be open to abuse. It should be legal for parents to provide wine for their children at home but it should be illegal to do the same in a licensed restaurant, even if the child was aged 18 or 19, the council told the committee. It supported the bill’s proposal for a 20 year minimum drinking age because it stood “in the interests of an enforceable law which commands public support.”
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