New South Wales Repealed Acts

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LIQUOR ACT 1982 - SECT 44

44 Right of objection to application

(1) Subject to this Division, an objection to the grant of an application by the court may, as prescribed, be taken by:

(a) the owner of the premises to which the application relates,

(b) a person authorised in writing by 3 or more residents of the neighbourhood within which those premises are, or will be, situated or a person who is such a resident and is authorised in writing by 2 or more other such residents,

(c) the Director,

(d) the Commissioner of Police,

(e) a person authorised by the local consent authority for the premises,

(f) a person who satisfies the court that his or her interests, financial or other, are likely to be adversely affected by the grant of the application,

(g) in the case of an application for removal of a hotelier's licence--a lessee or mortgagee of the licensed premises or a sublessee of a lessee or sublessee thereof, or

(i) any other person with the leave of the court.

(2) An objection may not be taken by a person referred to in subsection (1) (a), (b), (f) or (i) unless it is accompanied by an affidavit by the objector specifying:

(a) whether he or she has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in the refusal of the application or any expectation of such an interest, and

(b) whether any person other than the objector is interested in the lodging of the objection and, if so:

(i) the name of each such person, and

(ii) where that person is a proprietary company--the names of the directors and principal shareholders.