Tourist Accommodation Pty Ltd v Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority

[2023] NSWCA 67

NSW Court of Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Administrative Law
2. › Procedural fairness
3. › Content of obligation
4. › Gaming machine threshold increase application
5. › Whether Authority obliged to inform applicant of quantum of community benefit payment required
6. › Whether Authority obliged to approve application subject to condition of payment
7. › Gaming Machines Act 2001 (NSW), ss 36(3)(c)(i), 36A, 36B, 36C
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Relevant and irrelevant considerations
4. › Statutory construction
5. › Broad discretionary power
6. › Whether Authority entitled to consider negative impacts under 'otherwise appropriate' provision for Class 1 local impact assessment
7. › Whether consideration of 'funnelling effect' impermissibly treated Class 1 LIA as Class 2 LIA
8. › Gaming Machines Act 2001 (NSW), ss 3, 36(3)(c)(i), 36(3)(d)(i), 36(3)(e)
1. Appeal
2. › Leave to appeal
3. › New ground raised for first time on appeal
4. › Whether ground raised purely a question of law
5. › Whether unfair to respondent to permit new ground
6. › Coulton v Holcombe (1986) 162 CLR 1

Quick Take

The Authority is not obliged to specify the precise quantum of community benefit payment required for gaming machine threshold increases, and the 'otherwise appropriate' provision in s 36(3)(e) permits consideration of negative impacts including funnelling effects between adjacent venues, even for Class 1 LIAs.