Boxing: Joseph Parker's heavyweight fight against Anthony Joshua to clash with Easter Sunday trading laws

Due to the Easter trading laws, bars will need to apply for special licences to serve alcohol during Parker's heavyweight bout. Photo / Getty

Pub and bar owners will have to apply to their local council in order to sell alcohol during Joseph Parker's highly-anticipated world title fight.

Parker's unification bout against Britain's Anthony Joshua, on April 1 (NZ time), clashes with New Zealand's Easter Sunday.

Due to the Easter Sunday trading laws, cafes, including bars, are able to remain open but can only serve alcohol if a person is dining and can only serve drinks no more than one hour either side of that meal.

Pub and bar owners would need to apply to their local councils for a special license allowing them to serve alcohol as usual during the blockbuster world title fight.

Joseph Parker will contest Anthony Joshua's IBF, WBA and IBO belts. Photo / Getty

The applications would go to the independent District Licensing Committee, where several organisations, including the New Zealand Police, could then make submissions for or against the application.

Manager of the Fox Sporting Bar and Restuarant in Auckland, Anna Pashkova, told Fairfax that they would be applying for permission to remain open during the fight.

"We open for all of Joseph Parker's fights, so we hope to open on Easter Sunday," Pashkova said.

The heavyweight title bout was confirmed on Monday morning and will see Parker's WBO belt and Joshua's IBF, WBA and IBO belts put on the line.