COMMENTARY ON SECTIONS PART 7: Offences. Section 138 – Keeping alcohol on premises for unauthorised sale
222.This section makes it an offence to keep alcohol on premises with the intention of selling it by retail (see the definition in section 192) or supplying it (by or on behalf of a club or to the order of a member of the club) unless that sale or supply would be under and in accordance with an authorisation. Subsection (5) provides that a court which convicts a person of this offence may order the confiscation of the alcohol in question and its containers, which may then be either destroyed or dealt with as the court orders.