55Associates of a person

55 Associates of a person (1) For the purpose of determining an application for a licence or an authority, the following are taken to be associates of a person if engaged or intended to be engaged in the management of the applicant or applicant's business: (a) the person's spouse or de facto partner; (c) a business partner of the person; (d) a body corporate of which the person is an executive officer;

Liquor Act 2019 41 (e) if the person is a body corporate: (i) an executive officer of the body corporate; and (ii) a person who holds a controlling interest in the body corporate; (f) a person who, within the 12 months before the application, provided advice to the person, for a fee or reward, in relation to the sale of liquor; (g) an employer of the person; (h) an officer of a body corporate of which the person is an officer; (j) a body corporate that is accustomed or under an obligation to act in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the person; (k) a body corporate on whose directions, instructions or wishes the person is accustomed or under an obligation to act; (l) a body corporate in which the person holds a controlling interest; (m) a person disclosed in an affidavit made by the person under section 54; (n) a person who is an associate of a person referred to in paragraphs (a) to (m). (2) For subsection (1)(j), a body corporate is taken to be accustomed or under an obligation if its executive officers are accustomed or under an obligation, whether formally or informally. (3) For subsection (1)(e)(ii) and (l), a person is taken to hold a controlling interest in a body corporate if that person, alone or together with one or more associates of that person, is in a position to control at least 15% of the voting power in the body corporate or holds interests in at least 15% of the issued shares in the body corporate.