Liquor Control Act 1988

Subsection (2) applies to —

an application for the grant or removal of a licence of a kind prescribed; or

an application for a permit of a kind prescribed; or

any other application to which the Director decides it is appropriate for subsection (2) to apply.

An applicant who makes an application to which this subsection applies must satisfy the Director that granting the application is in the public interest.

For the purposes of subsection (2), the applicant must provide to the Director —

any prescribed document or information; and

any other document or information reasonably required by the Director for those purposes.

Without limiting subsection (2), the matters the Director may have regard to in determining whether granting an application is in the public interest include —

the harm or ill‑health that might be caused to people, or any group of people, due to the use of liquor; and

whether the amenity, quiet or good order of the locality in which the licensed premises or proposed licensed premises are, or are to be, situated might in some manner be lessened; and

whether offence, annoyance, disturbance or inconvenience might be caused to people who reside or work in the vicinity of the licensed premises or proposed licensed premises; and

any effect the granting of the application might have in relation to tourism, or community or cultural matters; and

any other prescribed matter.

If an application referred to in subsection (1)(a) is refused because the Director is not satisfied that granting the application is in the public interest, an application for the grant or removal of a licence in respect of the same premises or land cannot be made within 3 years after the Director’s decision unless the Director certifies that the proposed application is of a kind sufficiently different from the application that was refused.

If subsection (2) applies to an application, the Director may publish the following on the Department’s website —

the application;

any document or information provided under subsection (3) in relation to the application.