All Alice pubs to face Liquor Act audit

Every licensed premises in Alice Springs will be audited by independent assessors to ensure they are complying with the Territory Liquor Act.

It is part of a deal in which the Commonwealth will allow the NT Government to use welfare quarantining as part of mandatory alcohol rehabilitation laws.

Health Minister Robyn Lambley says the length of the assessments will be extended if necessary.

"If we are not getting an accurate picture of what is happening in these establishments during the four or five months we are doing this process then we would have to look at extending it," she said.

Ms Lambley says every licensed premises in town will be assessed by December.

She says a compromise was struck with federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, so inspectors did not just target the Todd Tavern and Gap View Hotel.

"Targeting those two was a little bit unfair, so what we have agreed to do is to put independent assessors in place to look at all the bars through Alice Springs and to make sure they are complying with the Liquor Act," she said.

Source: ABC News, 2 July 2013