Alcohol (Licensing, Public Health and Criminal Justice) (Scotland) Bill - Scottish Parliament Consultation

Overview

The Scottish Parliament's Health & Sport Committee is running a survey on a Alcohol (Licensing, Public Health and Criminal Justice) (Scotland) Bill.

The Bill's overall aim is to promote public health and reduce alcohol-related offending through measures that:

• Place restrictions on the retailing and advertising of alcoholic drinks
• Make changes to licensing laws
• Place obligations on the Scottish Ministers to publish, review and report on their alcohol education policy
• Direct certain people whose offending or antisocial behaviour is attributable to alcohol consumption towards treatment or restrictions on that consumption

Its provisions relate to:

• Minimum price of packages containing more than one alcoholic product
• Alcoholic drinks containing caffeine
• Age discrimination: off-sales
• Container marking: off-sales
• Applications for, or to vary, premises licence: consultation and publicity
• Restrictions on advertising of alcohol
• Alcohol education policy statements
• Drinking banning orders
• Fixed penalty offences involving alcohol: alcohol awareness training as alternative to fixed penalty
• Offences involving alcohol: notification of offender’s GP

Why your views matter

The Health & Sport Committee would like to gather a range of views on the proposals to introduce a new Bill. Committe members will take into account the views expressed in the survey as part of their overall consideration of the Bill.