Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing bodies: General provisions relating to licensing authority and licensing committees
203ALicensing committees must establish appropriate procedures
A licensing committee must establish appropriate procedures to consider applications.
When doing so, a licensing committee must ensure that those procedures—
- avoid unnecessary formality, including, for example (without limitation), by making appropriate provision about—
- the location and timing of the hearing:
- the layout of the venue of the hearing:
- the timetable for the hearing:
- the language and terminology to be used at the hearing; and
- the location and timing of the hearing:
- do not permit parties or their representatives to question other parties or witnesses of other parties; and
- do not permit cross-examination; and
- allow for tikanga Māori to be incorporated into proceedings; and
- allow for persons to be heard, and to make submissions, in te reo Māori.
To avoid doubt, nothing in subsection (1) applies to the licensing authority.
Compare
- 1991 No 69 s 39
Notes
- Section 203A: inserted, on , by section 16 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Community Participation) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 60).