Liquor Control Act 1988

Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023

 

 

Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023

Contents

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Term used: Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community1

Part 2 — Restricted area

4.Declaration of restricted area2

5.Notice of restricted area2

Part 3 — Prohibitions and related provisions

6.Prohibitions as to liquor in Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community3

7.Seizure and disposal of containers of liquor3

Part 4 — Period of effect

8.Period during which these regulations have effect4

Part 5 — Liquor Control Regulations 1989 amended

9.Regulations amended5

10.Regulation 27 amended5

Notes

Compilation table6

Other notes6

Defined terms

 

Liquor Control Act 1988

Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.Citation

These regulations are the Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023.

2.Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)Part 1 (other than regulation 3) — on the day on which these regulations are published on the WA legislation website;

(b)the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.Term used: Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community

In these regulations —

Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community means the area of land described as Lot 300 on Deposited Plan 45651, being the whole of the land in Record of Qualified Certificate of Crown Land Title Volume 2969 Folio 405.

Part 2 — Restricted area

4.Declaration of restricted area

The Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community is declared to be a restricted area for the purposes of section 175(1a) of the Act.

5.Notice of restricted area

(1)The Director of Liquor Licensing must take all reasonable steps to cause to be posted, and while the Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community continues to be a restricted area by operation of regulation 4 to be kept posted, at each place where a customary access route enters the Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community a notice —

(a)describing the offences set out in regulation 6(1); and

(b)specifying the penalties for those offences.

(2)A failure to comply with subregulation (1) does not invalidate the declaration in regulation 4.

Part 3 — Prohibitions and related provisions

6.Prohibitions as to liquor in Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community

(1)A person commits an offence if the person —

(a)brings liquor into, or causes liquor to be brought into, the Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community; or

(b)possesses liquor in the Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community.

Penalty for this subregulation:

(a)if subregulation (2) applies — a fine of $5 000;

(b)in any other case — a fine of $2 000.

(2)This subregulation applies to an offence under subregulation (1) committed by a licensee, a manager of licensed premises or a director of a body corporate that holds a licence.

7.Seizure and disposal of containers of liquor

Despite section 155(4) and (5) of the Act, a member of the Police Force may seize and, as soon as is practicable, dispose of any opened or unopened container of liquor suspected on reasonable grounds to be the subject of an offence under regulation 6(1).

Part 4 — Period of effect

8.Period during which these regulations have effect

Unless sooner repealed, these regulations have effect for the period that ends at the close of 2 November 2028.

Part 5 — Liquor Control Regulations 1989 amended

9.Regulations amended

This Part amends the Liquor Control Regulations 1989.

10.Regulation 27 amended

In regulation 27(4) in the Table insert in alphabetical order:

 

Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023 regulation 6(1)

 

 

 

Notes

This is a compilation of the Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023. For provisions that have come into operation see the compilation table.

Compilation table

Citation

Published

Commencement

Liquor Control (Mingullatharndo Restricted Area) Regulations 2023 1

SL 2023/174 1 Nov 2023

Part 1 (other than r. 3): 1 Nov 2023 (see r. 2(a));
Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 2 Nov 2023 (see r. 2(b))

Other notes

1These regulations expire at the close of 2 November 2028 (see r. 8).

 

 

Defined terms

 

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined termProvision(s)

Mingullatharndo Aboriginal Community3

 

 

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