Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences - Temporary authorities

136: Temporary authorities: on-licences and off-licences

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"Selling alcohol for a short time: how to get a temporary licence"

If you want to sell alcohol for a short time, you can apply for a temporary authority. You need to apply to a licensing committee and they will decide if you can have one. They might ask you to come to a meeting to talk about your application.

You have to fill out the application form and pay a fee. The committee can make a decision without telling anyone else, or they can tell some people and have a meeting. When they make a decision, they can add some conditions that you have to follow.

If nobody disagrees with your application, the chair of the committee can make the decision instead of the whole committee. If you get a temporary authority, you have to follow the same rules as the person who normally sells alcohol. This means you have to do what the law says and be responsible for what you do.

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135: Decision on renewal, or

"The licensing authority decides whether to renew a licence for up to 3 more years with conditions."

137: Filing of applications, or

"How to submit your application for a special alcohol licence on time"

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

136Temporary authorities: on-licences and off-licences

A licensing committee may, on the application of a person who appears to the committee to have any right, title, estate, or interest in any premises, or any business conducted in any premises, for which an on-licence or off-licence is in force, make an order authorising the applicant (or some suitable person nominated by the applicant) to carry on the sale and supply of alcohol for a period, not exceeding 3 months, stated in the order.
The application must be made in the prescribed form and manner and be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
The committee may hear and determine the application without notice, or direct that notice of the application and the time and place fixed for any hearing be served on any persons and in any manner the committee specifies.
On making an order, the committee or the chair (as the case may be)—
must impose any conditions that this Act requires an on-licence or off-licence (as the case requires) to be issued subject to; and
may impose any conditions that this Act enables an on-licence or off-licence (as the case requires) to be issued subject to; and
may impose any other reasonable conditions it thinks fit.

Despite subsection (1), if the application is uncontested, the chair of the committee may make an order instead of the committee.
The person authorised by the order has for the purposes of this Act the same duties, obligations, and liabilities as the holder of the on-licence or off-licence concerned.
For the purposes of this section, if the chair of the committee makes an order instead of the committee, a reference to the committee in any other relevant provision of this Act is to be treated as a reference to the chair.

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Notes

Section 136(4): amended, on 24 October 2019, by section 134(1) of the Statutes Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 56).
Section 136(4A): inserted, on 24 October 2019, by section 134(2) of the Statutes Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 56).
Section 136(6): inserted, on 24 October 2019, by section 134(3) of the Statutes Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 56).