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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Liquor Licensing Amendment (Petrol
Stations and Lodgers' Registers) Bill 2000
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Liquor Licensing Act 1988.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Liquor Licensing Amendment
(Petrol Stations and Lodgers' Registers) Act 2000.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.
3. The Act amended
The amendments in this Act are to the Liquor Licensing
5 Act 1988*.
[* Reprinted as at 12 June 1998.]
4. Section 3 amended
Section 3(1) is amended by inserting after the definition of "this
Act" the following definition --
10 "
"townsite" means a townsite under the Land
Administration Act 1997;
".
5. Section 36A inserted
15 After section 36 the following section is inserted --
"
36A. Petrol stations in some areas not to be granted
licences
(1) In this section --
20 "country townsite" means a townsite that is outside
the metropolitan area;
"packaged liquor outlet" means licensed premises
from which packaged liquor is sold but does not
include premises in respect of which a club licence
25 is in force;
"petrol station" means a business that involves the
retail sale of fuel for road vehicles to people
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travelling in them, whether or not other goods or
services are also sold or supplied to those people.
(2) The licensing authority shall not approve the grant or
removal of a licence that would authorize the sale of
5 packaged liquor from any premises if there is a petrol
station on the premises and the premises are --
(a) in the metropolitan area; or
(b) in, or within a prescribed distance outside, a
country townsite in which there is a packaged
10 liquor outlet.
".
6. Section 65A inserted
After section 65 the following section is inserted --
"
15 65A. Petrol station not to be established on premises
from which packaged liquor is sold
(1) In this section --
"applicable day" means the day on which the Liquor
Licensing Amendment (Petrol Stations and
20 Lodgers' Registers) Act 2000 comes into
operation;
"country townsite" has the same meaning as it has in
section 36A;
"petrol station" has the same meaning as it has in
25 section 36A.
(2) A licence that authorizes the sale of packaged liquor
and that is in respect of premises in the metropolitan
area or in a country townsite is subject to the condition
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that after the applicable day a petrol station must not be
established on the premises.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to premises that are in a
country townsite if the Director, on an application by
5 the licensee of the premises, so orders.
(4) In the case of a breach of the condition referred to in
subsection (2) the licensing authority must cancel the
licence in respect of the premises unless it is satisfied
that the construction of the petrol station commenced
10 before the applicable day in which case the authority
may exercise any of the powers in section 96.
".
7. Section 105 amended
Section 105(7)(a) is amended by deleting "6 years" and
15 inserting instead --
" 2 years ".
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