Queensland Consolidated Acts

LIQUOR ACT 1992 - SECT 228A

228A Disqualification from holding licence or permit on conviction of certain offences

(1) A person is disqualified from holding a licence or permit on the person’s second or later conviction of an unlicensed sales offence.

(2) The person remains disqualified for the following period—

(a) if the conviction was the person’s second conviction of an unlicensed sales offence—5 years from the date of the conviction;

(b) if the conviction was the person’s third or later conviction of an unlicensed sales offence—10 years from the date of the conviction.

(3) To remove doubt, it is declared that, in deciding for this section whether a conviction is a second, third or later conviction of an unlicensed sales offence, an expired conviction of an unlicensed sales offence must not be counted.

(4) In this section—

"expired conviction" means a conviction—

(a) for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired; and

(b) that has not been revived under that Act.

"unlicensed sales offence" means an offence against section 169 or 171 .