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Liquor Control Reform Act 1998
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Division 10—Provision of information
S. 66AA inserted by No. 64/2014 s. 42.
66AA Definitions
***applicable licence*** means a licence that is not—
(a) a general licence; or
(b) an on-premises licence; or
(c) a restaurant and cafe licence; or
(d) a club licence; or
(e) a packaged liquor licence; or
(f) a late night licence; or
(g) a licence that is specified, or of a class that is specified, in an Order under section 66AB; or
(h) a licence that is specified in an Order under section 66AC as a licence held by a small business; or
(i) a licence of a class that is specified in an Order under section 66AC as a class of licences held by small businesses;
***reporting licensee*** means a holder of an applicable licence;
***wholesale liquor transaction*** means a transaction in which a reporting licensee, under an applicable licence, supplies liquor to another licensee in that other licensee's capacity as a licensee;
***wholesale liquor supply information*** means, in relation to a wholesale liquor transaction, the following information—
(a) the volume of liquor supplied in the transaction;
(b) the value, in dollars, of the liquor supplied in the transaction;
(c) the type of the liquor supplied in the transaction;
(d) the prescribed additional information (if any) relating to the transaction.
S. 66AB inserted by No. 64/2014 s. 42.
66AB Specification of certain licences
The Minister may, by Order published in the Government Gazette, specify a licence or a class of licences for the purposes of paragraph (g) of the definition of ***applicable licence*** in section 66AA.
S. 66AC inserted by No. 64/2014 s. 42.
66AC Specification of certain licences as small business licences
(1) The Minister may, by Order published in the Government Gazette, specify—
(a) a licence as a licence held by a small business; or
(b) a class of licences as licences held by small businesses.
(2) For the purpose of making an Order under subsection (1), the Minister must consult with—
S. 66AC(2)(a) amended by No. 16/2017 s. 31.
(a) the Minister administering the **Small Business Commission Act 2017**; and
(b) the Minister administering Part V of the **Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981**.
S. 66AD inserted by No. 64/2014 s. 42.
66AD Requirement to provide wholesale information
S. 66AD(1) amended by No. 49/2021 s. 33(1).
(1) A reporting licensee who has conducted a wholesale liquor transaction in a prescribed period must provide the information specified in subsection (2) to a prescribed person—
S. 66AD(1)(a) inserted by No. 49/2021 s. 33(1).
(a) on the prescribed day of every year; or
S. 66AD(1)(b) inserted by No. 49/2021 s. 33(1).
(b) if the Commission has fixed another date for the provision of the information, on that date.
S. 66AD(1A) inserted by No. 49/2021 s. 33(2).
(1A) At the request of a reporting licensee or at its own initiative, the Commission may fix a date for the provision of the information required under subsection (1).
S. 66AD(1B) inserted by No. 49/2021 s. 33(2).
(1B) The Commission may fix a date under subsection (1A) in relation to—
(a) a particular licensee; or
(b) reporting licensees of a particular class; or
(c) all reporting licensees.
S. 66AD(1C) inserted by No. 49/2021 s. 33(2).
(1C) If a date is fixed under subsection (1A), the Commission must——
(a) if fixed in relation to a particular licensee, provide that licensee with written notice of the date for provision of the information; or
(b) in all other cases, publish a notice in the Government Gazette specifying—
(i) the date for provision of the information; and
(ii) the class of licensees to whom it applies or that it applies to all licensees.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the specified information is the wholesale liquor supply information for each wholesale liquor transaction carried out by the reporting licensee in the prescribed period.
(3) The regulations may prescribe—
(a) the form and manner in which the wholesale liquor supply information must be provided; and
(b) the purposes for which the wholesale liquor supply information may be used, being purposes that are consistent with the objects of this Act; and
See section 4 for the objects of this Act.
S. 66AD(3)(c) amended by No. 38/2017 s. 89.
(c) the persons to whom a prescribed person referred to in subsection (1) may disclose the wholesale liquor supply information; and
(d) limitations on the use or disclosure of the wholesale liquor supply information.
(4) No compensation is payable by the State in respect of anything done in compliance with this section.
S. 66A inserted by No. 59/2009 s. 27.