Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 - SECT 53

Liability of joint and incorporated licensees or permittees and unincorporated clubs

53. Liability of joint and incorporated licensees or permittees and
unincorporated clubs



(1) If a licence or BYO permit is granted or transferred to two or more
persons, those persons are severally liable as licensee or permittee.

(2) If a licence or BYO permit is granted or transferred to a body corporate,
the directors of the body corporate are severally liable as licensee or
permittee.

(3) If a club licence is granted to a person on behalf of an unincorporated
club, the members of the committee of management of the club are severally
liable as licensee.

(4) Subsection (2) or (3) does not apply at any time when a nominee of the
body corporate or club (as the case requires) is in place under section 54.

(5) Nothing in subsection (4) affects or limits the application of Part 6.