Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Licensing trusts, community trusts, and other matters - Other matters - Regulations

397: Regulations

You could also call this:

"Rules made by the Governor-General about alcohol licences and sales"

The Governor-General can make rules for things like how people apply for alcohol licences. You need to follow a certain process when you apply for a licence or object to someone else's application. The Governor-General can also make rules about how much money you have to pay for a licence.

The Governor-General can make rules that say people who sell alcohol have to give information about how much they sell and at what price. This is so the government can think about introducing a minimum price for alcohol. The rules can say how people have to give this information.

The Governor-General can make rules that are different for different types of alcohol sales. For example, the rules can be different for people who make alcohol, people who sell it in shops, or people who sell it in bars. If you do not follow these rules, you can get a fine of up to $20,000.

The Governor-General can make rules about how people have to tell the public about things, like when someone applies for a licence. These rules can be different depending on what type of licence it is or who is applying for it. You can read more about what these rules are in the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 3Licensing trusts, community trusts, and other matters
Other matters: Regulations

397Regulations

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for any or all of the following purposes:

  2. prescribing the procedure to be followed in respect of applications, objections, and reports to, and proceedings before, the licensing authority or district licensing committees:
    1. prescribing fees payable to the licensing authority in relation to the performance of its functions:
      1. prescribing fees payable to territorial authorities in relation to—
        1. the performance of the functions of their licensing committees; or
          1. the performance of the functions of their inspectors; or
            1. the undertaking of enforcement activities:
            2. for the purpose only of any investigations to be undertaken in relation to the possibility of introducing minimum pricing schemes for alcohol, requiring persons who sell alcohol to give the chief executive information relating to the quantities of alcohol they have sold over any period and the prices at which they have sold it:
              1. prescribing the form in which information required to be given by regulations under paragraph (d) must be given:
                1. providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.
                  1. Regulations under subsection (1)(d)—

                  2. may apply differently to different sales, depending on whether they are made by people in their capacity as manufacturer, wholesaler, holder of an off-licence, or holder of an on-licence or club licence:
                    1. may apply differently to different kinds of alcohol:
                      1. may—
                        1. create offences for failing or refusing to comply with their requirements; and
                          1. prescribe penalties (being fines not exceeding $20,000) for committing the offences.
                          2. Regulations made under subsection (1)(f) for the purposes of the definition in section 5(1) of public notice may prescribe different requirements for different matters, by reference to either or both of the following:

                          3. the kind of licence to which the notice relates:
                            1. the kind of person required to give the notice.
                              1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                              Notes
                              • Section 397(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).