With Christmas and the New Year just around the corner, I would like to advise that the opening hours for premises holding general, club and on licences have been extended for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Christmas Eve will see hours extended from midnight until 2 am on Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve will see hours extended from midnight until 3 am on New Year’s Day. Although opening hours have been extended, liquor is not permitted to be removed from licensed premises during the extended hours and any conditions applying to existing outofhours permits also apply to these extended hours. While there is still time left, licensees should examine their trading needs for Christmas and New Year’s events and, if necessary, apply for an outofhours permit or an extension of their existing outofhours permit before 10 December 2019. Licensees and their staff are reminded to observe the principles of re- sponsible serving of alcohol and to be particularly vigilant during this busy trading period to ensure the safety of the community and avoid penalties from breaching the Act. While the Branch will be closing at 4 pm on 24 December 2019 and reopening on 2 January 2020, compli- ance inspectors from the Branch will continue to monitor activities at licensed premises around the State and will be attending major events during the holiday period. With a new year approaching, I would like to remind licensees that annual fee notices for liquor licences will be sent out in early January, Liquor and Gaming ARTICLE
with payment due by 31 March 2020. The notices now show the fee payable by the due date, as well as the fee payable if payment is made after 31 March 2020, reflecting a 10 per cent penalty. Non-payment of the licence fee may result in suspension or cancellation of the liquor licence. If you are no longer trading and do not wish to pay the annual fee, please surrender your liquor licence. Similarly, if you no longer intend to be the licensee, please apply to transfer the liquor licence to another person. The August edition of the Hospitality Review detailed the annual re- quirement for Tasmanian liquor wholesalers or producers to report wholesale liquor sales data, and there is still time to submit for 201819. Your wholesale data will assist in estimating the per capita consump- tion of alcohol to inform alcohol harm minimisation strategies, as well as health and police service delivery. If you need assistance with the new process, please contact the Liquor and Gaming Branch by email- ing licensing@treasury.tas.gov.au. Finally, the December 2019 Liquor and Gaming Newsletter will be shortly available on our website under ‘Recent News’ at https://www. treasury.tas.gov.au/liquor-and-gaming. On behalf of the Liquor and Gaming Branch, I wish all readers a happy and safe festive season.
Jonathon Root
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