- About ALAC
ALAC’s vision and mission are outlined here with links to our corporate documents that describe how we are working to achieve our mission.
Corporate documents and reports can be downloaded from here.You will find information about ALAC and its structure. Council members and Senior management are profiled.
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- Activities & Services
The Activities & Services section of the website has information about what ALAC is up to.
This is where you can find out what we are working on and how we achieve our goals.
- Priority Population Action Plans
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- Alcohol & You
Want to know if your drinking is okay? Or are you considering making some changes to your drinking but want to know more? Do you know exactly how big a standard drink is?
Play the online games in the section to find out. Find out all about your relationship with alcohol here...
- Is Your Drinking Okay?
- What's in a Standard Drink?
- Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Advice
- Your Body & Alcohol
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- How to Be Safer
- The Law & You
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- Legislation & Policy
Check out this section for NZ legislation and local strategies and polices relating to alcohol.
- Sale of Liquor Act
- Planning & Resource Management Act
- Alcoholism & Drug Addiction Act
- Alcohol Bans
- Alcohol Strategies & Policies
- Liquor Licences
- Liquor Licensing Authority Decisions
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- Research & Resources
This is the ALAC research and resources section. This is where you can find alcohol statistics and researched topics.
ALAC has two blogs, a research blog and our general blog. Take a look at some of the interesting conversations that are happening here.
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Alcohol Strategies & Policies
Guidelines
Guidelines for Preparing an Alcohol Strategy (Nov 2008) (pdf 216KB)
These guidelines have been designed to assist local authorities and their partners with developing responses to local alcohol problems and bringing them together within an alcohol strategy.
Planning for Alcohol in the Community (Jun 2005) (pdf 826KB)
This toolkit aims to encourage those working in local government to consider how all council responsibilities and activities related to alcohol can be brought together in one coherent Local Alcohol Strategy to help reduce local alcohol-related harm.
Examples of strategies and policies
Listed below are the document links to the Territorial Authorities (TAs) in New Zealand that have alcohol strategies or liquor policies in place:
A
Ashburton District Council Liquor Licensing Policy
Auckland City Council Alcohol Strategy
C
Central Otago Sale of Liquor Policy
Chatham Islands Council Draft Liquor Licensing Policy
Christchurch City Council Alcohol Policy
Clutha District Council Sale of Liquor Policy
D
Dunedin City Council Sale of Liquor Policy
F
Far North District Council Liquor Policy
Franklin Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy and Local Alcohol Policy
G
Gisborne Sale of Liquor Policy
Gore District Alcohol Strategy
H
Hamilton City Council Liquor Policy
Hastings District Council Liquor Licensing Policy
Hauraki Sale of Liquor Policy
Horowhenua District Council Sale of Liquor Policy
Hurunui District Liquor Licensing Policy
Hutt City Council Sale of Liquor Policy
I
Invercargill City Council Liquor Policy
K
Kapiti Coast District Council Liquor Policy
M
Manukau City Council - liquor licensing information
Masterton Liquor Licensing Policy
Matamata-Piako Liquor Licensing Policy
N
Napier City Sale of Liquor Policy
Nelson Tasman Regional Alcohol Strategy
New Plymouth District Alcohol Strategy 2009-2014
North Shore City Council Liquor Licensing Policy
Q
Queenstown Lakes District Council Liquor Licensing Policy
R
Rangitikei Liquor Policy
Rotorua District Council Sale of Liquor Policy
Ruapehu Policy on Liquor Licensing
S
Selwyn Sale of Liquor Licensing Policy
Southland District Sale of Liquor Policy
Stratford Liquor Licensing Policy
T
Tararua District Council Liquor Licensing Policy
Tauranga City Council Sale of Liquor Policy
Timaru District Council Sale of Liquor Policy
Taupo District Sale of Liquor Policy
W
Waimakariri Community Action Plan on Alcohol
Waimakariri Liquor Licensing Policy
Waipa Liquor Licensing Policy
Waitakere City Council Liquor Licensing Policy
Waitakere City Council Alcohol Strategy
Waitaki Sale of Liquor Act Implemantation Policy
Wanganui District Council Liquor Policy
Wellington City Council Liquor Licensing Policy
Westland District Council Licensing Agency Strategy Statement
Whakatane Alcohol Policy
Whangarei District Council Liquor Licensing Policy