Liquor (Rural Hotels Concession) Amendment Bill 2017*

An Act to amend the Liquor Act 1992 for particular purposes

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Liquor (Rural Hotels Concession) Amendment Act 2017.

2Act amended

This Act amends the Liquor Act 1992.

3Insertion of new s 202A

After section 202—
insert—

202AConcessional fee for commercial hotel licence in very remote Australia

(1)This section applies in relation to a commercial hotel licence for premises in very remote Australia.

(2)A regulation made under section 202(1) must provide for the licence fee payable for the licence for a licence period to be assessed at the rate of 10% of the licence fee that would be payable if the premises were not in very remote Australia.

(3)Subsection (4) applies if, under a regulation, the amount of the licence fee payable for a commercial hotel licence for premises that are not in very remote Australia depends on where, outside of very remote Australia, the premises are located.

(4)For subsection (2), the licence fee that would be payable if the premises were not in very remote Australia is taken to be the licence fee that would be payable if the premises were located at the nearest place that is not in very remote Australia.

(5)In this section—

very remote Australia means the area classified under that name in the Australian Statistical Geography Standard, volume 5—Remoteness Structure, July 2011 (Cat. No. 1270.0.55.005), published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on its website.