Posted on February 3rd, 2012 by sbawa

Both the Commissioner of Police and the Executive Director of Public Health are authorised to intervene in proceedings before the licensing authority to introduce evidence or make representations on relevant matters.  The Commissioner is authorised to intervene as to: the fitness and propriety of any person; the question of whether if a particular application were [...]

Posted on December 9th, 2011 by sbawa

This final Liquor Snapshot for 2011 briefly identifies just some of the many changes that affected the liquor industry this year. The amendments to the Liquor Control Act with the introduction of the restricted and unrestricted manager system arguably has had the greatest practical affect across the board on licensees. A new kind of hotel [...]

Posted on November 28th, 2011 by sbawa

The Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor recently refused another application for a liquor store licence.  This application was for a restricted take away service in Perth.  The majority of sales were to be generated and transacted via the internet to members of its wine club.  The liquor store’s focus was to be the provision [...]

Posted on November 10th, 2011 by sbawa

The Liquor Commission recently reaffirmed the decision of the Director of Liquor Licensing by rejecting a hotel licence for a major southwest development to be called Champagne House.  The Director had refused the application on the basis that the applicant had failed to prove it was in the public interest to grant the licence due [...]

Posted on October 27th, 2011 by sbawa

As a matter of policy, the Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor does not accept any application for the grant of a liquor licence without a Liquor Control Act section 40 certificate from the local government authority in which the proposed premises are, or will be, situated.  Such a certificate verifies that the proposed use [...]

Posted on October 14th, 2011 by sbawa

Many liquor licences in Western Australia are applied for and subsequently operated by or transferred to corporate entities.  As part of the application process, the directors and shareholders are required to submit formal documentation to the Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor (Department).  The Department requires the formal documentation to assist to assess and determine [...]

Posted on September 28th, 2011 by sbawa

The State Government has recently tabled its response to the Education and Health Standing Committee’s report Alcohol: Reducing the Harm and Curbing the Culture of Excess (Report).  The Report was tabled in Parliament on 23 June 2011 and recommended sweeping reforms to the liquor industry such as barring people from purchasing takeaway liquor until they [...]

Posted on September 15th, 2011 by sbawa

It has previously been reported that the licensing authority is increasingly imposing unique conditions or restrictions on the grant of many new licences.  Special trading conditions are frequently tailored to ensure licensees conduct their businesses strictly in the manner portrayed in their application documents, particularly their intended manner of trade document.  It is therefore important [...]

Posted on September 1st, 2011 by sbawa

Licensees wishing to trade later than normal on Sundays preceding a Monday public holiday in 2012 will need to lodge extended trading permit applications with the Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor on or before 31 October 2011. Long weekend extended trading permit applications in respect of nightclubs, hotels, taverns, small bars and some special [...]

Posted on August 19th, 2011 by sbawa

Licensees, other than club restricted or occasional licensees, are required to actually occupy the licensed premises and maintain the right to occupy the licensed premises to the exclusion of others pursuant to section 37(5) of the Liquor Control Act.  There are numerous circumstances where licensees may lose the right to occupy licensed premises.  Examples of [...]