Liquor: Licence Application and Community Impact Statement (Applicant) - Contested Application - Police or Local Health District Formal Objection

This fork operates before ILGA, which decides hotel, club, bottle shop and nightclub applications itself and deals with complex or contentious matters even where a delegation exists. The Authority expects to determine most applications on the papers. Review depends on the decision: ILGA decisions on prescribed applications are reviewable on the merits by NCAT's Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division under s 13A of the Gaming and Liquor Administration Act 2007 (NSW), usually within 28 days of the day the Authority publishes its reasons (21 days for certain decisions); a prescribed decision by a delegate is reviewable by ILGA under s 36A.

The opposing submission is received and analysed. The client is advised who will decide the application. Crime, health and licensing data are obtained. A written response is drafted and lodged when L&GNSW gives the applicant the submissions at the end of the noticeboard period. A meeting with the opposing agency is sought to understand its concerns and to explore whether measures or conditions would resolve them. Final written submissions are prepared, referring where conditions are proposed to the Ministerial Directions of 1 July 2025, which require ILGA to give each of the objects of the Act equal weight and to justify any condition for the individual venue on its specific circumstances. Reasons are requested where they are not published. If the determination is adverse and reviewable, the review period shown on the Noticeboard is diarised and a review application considered.

Key legislation: Liquor Act 2007 (NSW) s 3 (objects) and s 72I (under s 72I(3) the Authority must be satisfied that the overall impact of the licence will not be detrimental to the wellbeing of the local or broader community); Gaming and Liquor Administration Act 2007 (NSW) s 13A (review by NCAT of decisions of the Authority on prescribed applications), s 36A (review by the Authority of prescribed decisions made by its delegates), s 6(3) (Ministerial directions); Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997 (NSW); Ministerial Directions to ILGA dated 1 July 2025, issued by the Hon. David Harris MP (ILGA must give each of the objects of the Act equal weight, must not set a hierarchy of objects to apply across all decisions, and must justify any condition as being required for the individual venue based on its specific set of circumstances; the Directions state that they do not relate to ILGA's decisions on granting a licence). Decision-maker: ILGA's Regulatory Delegations Manual (September 2026) requires any matter that would ordinarily be dealt with under delegation, but which is especially contentious, novel, precedent-setting or has attracted a very significant degree of public interest, to be referred to the Authority.

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