New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

LIQUOR ACT 1982 - SECT 145

145 Proceedings for offences

(1) Proceedings under this Act whereby a person:

(a) may be imprisoned, or

(b) may be punished by the exaction of a penalty for the non-payment of which the person is liable to be imprisoned,

may be disposed of summarily by the Licensing Court or by a Local Court.

(2) Proceedings referred to in subsection (1) may be instituted within the period of 12 months that next succeeds the act or omission giving rise to the proceedings.

(2A) Despite anything to the contrary in this section or in any other Act, proceedings for an offence referred to in the Table to this section may be instituted within the period of 3 years after the act or omission giving rise to the offence.

(3) Where the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 require any jurisdiction conferred by that Act to be exercised only by a Magistrate, that jurisdiction may, for the purposes of subsection (1), be exercised by the Licensing Court.

Table (Offences to which 3 year time limit applies) An offence under section 37, 69B, 69E, 101, 105A, 105B, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125B, 136, 139 or 155A of this Act.