Liquor Control Reform Act 1998

The Commission may conduct meetings and inquiries in public or private.

However, an inquiry conducted for the purposes of making a finding or a determination relating to any of the following matters must be conducted in public unless the Commission determines, under subsection (3), that there are special circumstances requiring that the inquiry or part of it should be conducted in private—

a liquor licence application if an objection, on the grounds of either amenity or harm under section 38, 40 or 41(1)(b), is lodged in accordance with the requirements of this Act;

a late hour entry declaration for an area or locality under section 58B;

a disciplinary action inquiry under section 91;

an inquiry into amenity or disuse under section 94.

The Commission may direct that an inquiry or part of it be conducted in private if the Commission considers that special circumstances of a kind specified in paragraph (a) or (b) exist—

to prevent the unreasonable divulgence of information relating to the personal affairs of any person (including a deceased person); or

it is otherwise in the interests of justice or the public interest to do so.

The Commission must advise that the Commission is conducting an inquiry in public by notice published on the Internet site of the Commission.

In the notice published under subsection (4), the Commission must—

specify the type of inquiry being conducted; and

specify the date, time and place of the inquiry.