An amendment to NSW Licence Conditions was passed today, implementing stringent restrictions on many of the state’s licensed venues. Commencing 1 December, the new conditions include a lockout between 2am and 5am and a ‘restricted service period’ from midnight till the time the declared venue closes. Just as it did in Melbourne, the lockout demands that venues refuse patrons entry during that three hour window. Punters already inside the venue cannot leave and re-enter between those times. Presumably, arriving at a club after 5am is respectable and a-OK.

The ‘restricted service period’ is even more severe. After midnight, no drinks – alcoholic or otherwise – can be served in a glass or breakable plastic container. Certain drinks are also prohibited in the ‘restricted service period’. These include shots, any RTD with an alcohol volume above 5%, any drink containing more than 50% spirits or liqueur, or any drink prepared on the premises that contains more than one 30 ml nip of spirits or liqueur (no doubles, kids). Light beer in a plastic cup, then? Buying rounds might prove difficult too. During the ‘restricted service period’, no single person will be allowed to buy more than 4 drinks at a time or more than a single bottle of wine.

Venues subject to special conditions:

Pontoon Bar Sydney CBD
Orient Hotel Sydney CBD
Cargo Bar Sydney CBD
Scruffy Murphy’s Sydney CBD
Home Nightclub Darling Harbour
Oxford Hotel Darlinghurst
Exchange Hotel Darlinghurst
ARQ Sydney Darlinghurst
Stonewall Hotel Darlinghurst
Taylor Square Hotel Darlinghurst
Vegas Hotel Potts Point
Piccadilly Hotel Potts Point
First Empire Hotel Potts Point
Coogee Bay Hotel Coogee
Bondi Hotel Bondi
The Eastern Bondi Junction
Steyne Hotel Manly
Mona Vale Hotel Mona Vale
Mean Fiddler Rouse Hill
Penrith Rugby League Club Penrith
Embassy Hotel Penrith
Albion Hotel Parramatta
PJ Gallagher’s Irish Pub Parramatta
Roxy Hotel Parramatta
One World Sport Parramatta Parramatta
Epping Hotel Epping
Rooty Hill RSL Club Rooty Hill
Northies–Cronulla Hotel Cronulla
Fusion Cronulla
AKA Nightclub Bar Sutherland
Campbelltown Catholic Club Campbelltown
Peakhurst Inn Peakhurst
Commercial Hotel Dubbo
Standard Hotel Orange
Imperial Hotel Tamworth
Oxford Tavern Bathurst
Glasshouse Tavern Wollongong
Crowne Plaza Terrigal Terrigal
Terrigal Hotel Terrigal
Central Coast Leagues Club Gosford
Iguana Joe’s Waterfront Bar Gosford
Club House Hotel Maitland
Beachcomber Resort & Conference Centre, Toukley
Altitude Nightclub Port Macquarie
Capital Nightclub Wagga Wagga
Flamingos Nitespot Goulburn
Roi Bar Albury
Mary Gilhooley’s Irish Pub & Restaurant