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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing bodies - General provisions relating to licensing authority and licensing committees

201: Licensing authority and licensing committees have powers of commissions of inquiry

You could also call this:

"Licensing authorities and committees have strong powers to investigate and make decisions, like a Commission of Inquiry."

When you are dealing with the licensing authority or a licensing committee, they have special powers. They can do things like a Commission of Inquiry, which is explained in the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908. This means they can make people come to a hearing and bring documents.

The chairperson or secretary of the licensing authority or committee can do some of these things on their own. They can make people come to a hearing or bring documents, and they can do other things to help with the hearing. This is all part of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908.

The licensing authority or committee can also look at a matter again if they want to. They can rehear something they have already decided, if they think it is necessary. This is in addition to the powers they have under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908.

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Licensing bodies: General provisions relating to licensing authority and licensing committees

201Licensing authority and licensing committees have powers of commissions of inquiry

  1. Within the scope of its jurisdiction, the licensing authority and every licensing committee must be treated as being a Commission of Inquiry under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908; and that Act, with any necessary modifications, applies accordingly.

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to this Act.

  3. The power of the licensing authority or a licensing committee under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908 to issue summonses requiring the attendance of witnesses before it or the production of documents, or to do any other act preliminary or incidental to the hearing of any matter by the authority or committee, may be exercised by the chairperson, or by the secretary purporting to act by direction or with the authority of the chairperson.

  4. In addition to its powers under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, the licensing authority or a licensing committee has power at any time if it thinks fit to rehear any matter that it has determined.

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