AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LIQUOR ORDINANCE 1962

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 8 of 1962

	Section 33 of the Liquor Ordinance 1929-1959 enables an application to the Licensing Magistrate for a conditional certificate authorizing the issue of a liquor licence in respect of premises proposed to be erected, when the premises have been completed in accordance with any conditions imposed by the Magistrate.  No provision is made for similar applications in respect of the removal of licences from existing premises to new premises proposed to be erected or in the course of construction.  Clause 3 of the amending Ordinance will enable such an application to be made, in the name of a club or the licensee, on a resolution of the committee of the club.

	Clause 2 of the amending Ordinance, which provides that the Ordinance shall be deemed to have come into operation on the second day of April, 1962, has been so drafted to enable an application presently before the Licensing Magistrate to proceed.

	Clause 4 of the amending Ordinance restores to sub-section (10) of section 30 of the Principal Ordinance the provision of a penalty of £20, for breach of the sub-section, which was inadvertently deleted from the sub-section by the Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1959.

	Clause 5 of the amending Ordinance deletes from paragraph (a) of sub-section (8) of section 32A of the Principal Ordinance the words “for the convenience of the public” which are redundant insofar as they relate to reports concerning facilities provided in licensed premises to which the public are admitted, and inappropriate to reports relating to club premises.