New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

LIQUOR ACT 1982 - SECT 55

55 Issue of licence

(1) Where the court grants an application for a licence or is authorised by the Governor or the Minister to issue a licence, the licence may be issued by the registrar or by the Principal Registrar but is not to be issued unless the fee (if any) prescribed by section 56 is paid to the registrar or the Principal Registrar and any condition without prior compliance with which the grant or authority does not have effect has been complied with.

(2) A grant of, or authority to issue, a licence does not have effect while the issue of the licence is prohibited by subsection (1) or while a stay under subsection (4) is in force.

(3) Where a registrar grants an application for a licence, the licence shall be issued by the registrar on payment to the registrar of the fee prescribed by section 56 for the licence.

(3A) A grant of, or an authority to issue, a licence is cancelled after 3 months if the fee prescribed under section 56 has not been paid.

(4) The court may stay the issue of a licence:

(a) until the expiration of the period within which an appeal against the adjudication granting the licence may be made or the expiration of the period of 1 month that next succeeds the adjudication, whichever is the later, and

(b) where such an appeal is lodged-until the appeal is heard and determined or otherwise disposed of,

and may at any time terminate such a stay.

(5) In its application to a hotelier’s licence, an off-licence to sell liquor by retail or a nightclub licence, this section has effect subject to section 55A.