A Wānaka bottle store has been hit with a four-day booze ban after selling alcohol to drunk customers.
Wānaka Bullock Bar 2015 Ltd, trading as Liquorland Wānaka, was issued a liquor licence suspension by the Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority this month following an application by police.
The bottle store, in December last year, allegedly sold alcohol to two people officers had "assessed as being intoxicated", police said.
It is illegal for a licensee or a manager of any licensed premises to sell or supply alcohol to an intoxicated person.
For a licensee, it is an offence punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000, a liquor licence suspension of up to a week, or both.
Judge Allison Anne Sinclair ordered the bottle store’s off-licence to be suspended for 96 hours, from 7am Wednesday until 7am Sunday.
The respondent did not dispute the grounds of the police’s application and agreed to suspension of the off-licence, the decision said.
The suspension constituted one "negative holding".
A total of three incurred within three years would result in an application for the cancellation of the store’s liquor licence.
