Retail sale to be licensed
71.—(1)  Subject to this section, no person shall sell by retail or offer for sale by retail, or permit to be sold or offered, or have in his possession, for sale by retail, any intoxicating liquors except under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf granted under this Act and in a place specified in the licence.
(2)  No licence under this section shall be required in respect of the sale by retail, in premises authorised in writing for such sale by the commanding officers of the Singapore Armed Forces or of any visiting forces lawfully present in Singapore of intoxicating liquors to —
(a)officers and men of the Singapore Armed Forces or of the visiting forces serving in Singapore on full pay; and
(b)such civilian employees of the visiting forces as are authorised by the commanding officer concerned to purchase intoxicating liquors at those premises.
(3)  No licence under this section shall be required in respect of the sale by retail by a person registered as a pharmacist under the Pharmacists Registration Act (Cap. 230) of alcohol exempted from payment of duty in accordance with an order made under section 13, and in accordance with the terms of the exemption.
(4)  Subject to section 72(2), the delivery of intoxicating liquors in quantities of 30 litres or less shall, in any proceedings under this Act, be taken to be prima facie evidence of sale by retail and that money or other consideration was given for the same.
[S 270/71]
(5)  The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, exempt any person from subsection (1), subject to such conditions as the Minister may consider fit to impose.
[33/2000]