LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 73

LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 73

73 .         Objecting to applications, general right and rules as to

        (1)         A person who is authorised to intervene in any proceedings relating to an application may instead or in addition exercise that right by way of objection.

        (2)         Where an application is required to be advertised, a right to object to the application is conferred on any person on any ground permitted by section 74.

        [(3)         deleted]

        (4)         Subject to subsections (5) and (6), an objection shall be made by lodging a notice with the Director in the form approved by the Director, not later than the day specified in the advertisements or notices relating to the application as the last day on which objections should be lodged.

        (4A)         The Director must serve a copy of a notice lodged under subsection (4) on the applicant, unless section 30(4)(a) applies.

        (5)         The Director may —

            (a)         permit a notice of objection to be lodged —

                  (i)         by a person on whom, or a body on which, subsection (2) does not confer that right; or

                  (ii)         which is not in the approved form, or is otherwise deficient; or

                  (iii)         at any time before the determination of an application, notwithstanding that a prescribed time limitation has elapsed;

                or

            (b)         permit an objection lodged to be amended or substituted,

                and the licensing authority shall determine, in the public interest in each case, whether the objection so lodged, amended or substituted should be heard.

        (6)         Notwithstanding subsection (4), the licensing authority may, if it considers it proper to do so and subject to any conditions imposed, permit any objection to be taken at the hearing of an application.

        [(7)         deleted]

        (8)         If the applicant so requests, where —

            (a)         a notice of objection —

                  (i)         is lodged under subsection (5)(a)(ii); or

                  (ii)         is amended or substituted;

                or

            (b)         an objection is permitted to be taken at a hearing,

                the hearing shall be adjourned for such period as the licensing authority thinks necessary to enable the applicant to reply properly to any matter then raised.

        (9)         An objection may be made on behalf of an unincorporated body of persons by an agent duly appointed for the purpose.

        (10)         The burden of establishing the validity of any objection lies on the objector.

        [Section 73 amended: No. 12 of 1998 s. 16(2) and 51; No. 73 of 2006 s. 53, 111(3) and (4); No. 9 of 2018 s. 42.]