Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

LIQUOR ACT - SECT 23A

(1) For this Division, the following persons are associates of a person ( the person ):

(a) the person's spouse or de facto partner;

(b) a parent or remoter lineal ancestor, son, daughter or remoter issue, or brother or sister of the person;

(c) a partner of the person;

(d) a body corporate of which the person is an executive officer;

(e) if the person is a body corporate - an executive officer of the body corporate;

(f) a person who, in the previous year, has provided to the person advice for fee or reward in relation to the sale of liquor;

(g) an employee or employer of the person;

(h) an officer or employee of a body corporate of which the person is an officer or employee;

(i) an employee of a natural person of whom the person is an employee;

(j) a body corporate whose executive officers are accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the person or, where the person is a body corporate, of the executive officers of that body corporate;

(k) a body corporate in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of which, or of the executive officers of which, the person is accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act;

(l) a body corporate in which the person holds a controlling interest;

(m) if the person is a body corporate - a person who holds a controlling interest in the body corporate;

(n) a person who is named in an affidavit made by the person under section 26A;

(o) a person who, because of this subsection, is an associate of any other person who is an associate of the person.

(2) For subsection (1)(l) and (m), a person is taken to hold a controlling interest in a body corporate if that person, alone or together with one or more associates of that person, is in a position to control at least 15% of the voting power in the body corporate or holds interests in at least 15% of the issued shares in the body corporate.