Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: special licences - Applications for special licences

141: Inquiry into applications by Police, inspector, and Medical Officer of Health

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When you apply for a special licence, the secretary of the licensing committee sends a copy of your application to the police, an inspector, and the Medical Officer of Health. They get all the documents you filed with your application. The police and the Medical Officer of Health get the documents because they are near the place where you want the licence or where your business is. You need to know that the inspector looks into your application and writes a report for the licensing committee. The police also look into your application and write a report if they have any concerns. The Medical Officer of Health can look into your application and write a report if they have any concerns, and they have 15 working days to do this after getting your application. If the police or the Medical Officer of Health do not send a report within 15 working days, the licensing committee can assume they do not oppose your application. The secretary sends you a copy of any report about your application. This process is also subject to section 137(4).

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing process: special licences: Applications for special licences

141Inquiry into applications by Police, inspector, and Medical Officer of Health

  1. On receiving an application for a special licence, the secretary of the licensing committee concerned must send a copy of it, and of each document filed with it, to—

  2. the constable in charge of the police station nearest to—
    1. the premises for which the licence is sought; or
      1. the secretary's office, where the licence is sought for a conveyance; and
      2. an inspector; and
        1. the Medical Officer of Health—
          1. in whose district the premises are situated; or
            1. in whose district the applicant's principal place of business in New Zealand is situated, where the licence is sought for a conveyance.
            2. The inspector must inquire into, and file with the licensing committee a report on, the application.

            3. The Police—

            4. must inquire into the application; and
              1. if they have any matters in opposition to it, must file with the licensing committee a report on it within 15 working days after receiving the copy of it.
                1. The Medical Officer of Health—

                2. may inquire into the application; and
                  1. if he or she has any matters in opposition to it, may file with the licensing committee a report on it within 15 working days after receiving the copy of it.
                    1. The licensing committee may assume that, if no report is received from the Police or Medical Officer of Health within 15 working days after the Police or Medical Officer of Health received the copy of the application, the Police or Medical Officer of Health does not oppose the application.

                    2. The secretary must send to the applicant a copy of any report filed with the licensing committee under this section.

                    3. This section is subject to section 137(4).

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                    • Section 141(5): amended, on , by section 90 of the Statutes Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 104).