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LIQUOR AMENDMENT BILL 2016

Serial 13
Liquor Amendment Bill 2016
Ms Fyles






A Bill for an Act to amend the Liquor Act













NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

LIQUOR AMENDMENT ACT 2016

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Act No. [ ] of 2016

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Table of provisions

Part XXII Transitional matters for Liquor Amendment Act 2016

165 Application not determined

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NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

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Act No. [ ] of 2016

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An Act to amend the Liquor Act

[Assented to [ ] 2016]

[Second reading [ ] 2016]

The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Liquor Amendment Act 2016.

2 Commencement

This Act is taken to have commenced on 30 November 2016.

3 Act amended

This Act amends the Liquor Act.

4 Section 32A amended

(1) Section 32A(1A)

omit

(2) After section 32A(7)

insert

(7A) Despite subsection (7), the Director-General cannot vary the conditions of a store licence in a way that would permit the sale of liquor for consumption away from the licensed premises on a day on which that is not permitted under the licence as in force immediately before the application for the variation was made.

(7B) In addition, the Director-General cannot vary a store licence in a way that would change the licence to a type of licence that would permit the sale of liquor for consumption away from the licensed premises on a day on which that is not permitted under the licence as in force immediately before the application for the variation was made.

(7C) Subsections (7A) and (7B):

(a) apply whether an application was made before the commencement or after; but

(b) do not apply to overturn a variation to a licence made before the commencement.

(3) Section 32A(10), definition commencement

omit

Gaming and Liquor Legislation Amendment Act 2015

insert

Liquor Amendment Act 2016

5 Part XXII inserted

After section 164

insert

Part XXII Transitional matters for Liquor Amendment Act 2016

165 Application not determined

(1) This section applies in relation to an application for a variation of the conditions of a store licence that would have the effect of permitting the sale of liquor for consumption away from the premises on a day on which that is not permitted under the licence as in force immediately before the application was made.

(2) If the application has not been decided as at the commencement, it is taken to have been rejected.

(3) Part XAC does not apply to give a right of review in a matter that is taken under this section to have been rejected.

(4) In this section:

commencement means the commencement of the Liquor Amendment Act 2016.

store licence, see section 32A(10).

6 Expiry of Act

This Act expires on the day after it commences.

 


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