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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences - Applications for licences

102: Objections to applications

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“How to object to a liquor licence application”

You can object to an application for a liquor licence. You can do this as an individual or as a group. You must have a good reason for objecting.

If you want to object, you must put it in writing and give it to the licensing committee within 25 working days after the application is advertised. Your objection must be about something specified in section 105.

If someone applies for the same type of licence they already have, you can only object if you think the applicant is not suitable. The licensing committee will give a copy of your objection to the person who applied for the licence.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences: Applications for licences

102Objections to applications

  1. Any person may object to an application for the grant of a licence, whether as an individual or as a representative of a group or an organisation.

  2. However,—

  3. a trade competitor may object to an application only if the trade competitor is directly affected by the application in a way that does not relate to—
    1. trade competition; or
      1. the effects of trade competition; and
      2. a person may not object to an application if the person receives, or is likely to receive, direct or indirect help from a trade competitor to object to the application.

        1. An objection must be in writing and filed with the licensing committee within 25 working days after the first publication of the public notice of the making of the application.

        2. No objection may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 105.

        3. This subsection applies to an application—

        4. for a licence for premises that is of the same kind as the licence currently in force for those premises; and
          1. in which the conditions sought are the same as apply to that licence.

            1. In the case of an application to which subsection (4) applies, the ground for an objection may not relate to any matter other than the suitability of the applicant.

            2. The secretary of the licensing committee concerned must give a copy of every objection to the applicant.

            Notes
            • Section 102(1): replaced, on , by section 10(1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Community Participation) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 60).
            • Section 102(1A): inserted, on , by section 10(1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Community Participation) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 60).
            • Section 102(2): amended, on , by section 10(2) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Community Participation) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 60).
            • Section 102(4): replaced, on , by section 6 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 33).
            • Section 102(4A): inserted, on , by section 6 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 33).