City Council fees and charges for Regulatory Compliance Licensing and Registration services for 2024/2025.
Item | Fee |
1. Alcohol Licensing Fees | |
These fees are not set by Council but by the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Fees) Regulations 2013. | |
(i) Application for Premises | |
cost/risk rating category - Very Low | $368.00 |
cost/risk rating category - Low | $609.50 |
cost/risk rating category - Medium | $816.50 |
cost/risk rating category - High | $1023.50 |
cost/risk rating category - Very High | $1207.50 |
(ii) Annual Fee for Premises | |
cost/risk rating category - Very Low | $161.00 |
cost/risk rating category - Low | $391.00 |
cost/risk rating category - Medium | $632.50 |
cost/risk rating category - High | $1035.00 |
cost/risk rating category - Very High | $1437.50 |
(iii) Special Licence | |
Class 1 | $575.00 |
Class 2 | $207.00 |
Class 3 | $63.25 |
(iv) Managers Certificates (application and renewals) | $316.25 |
(v) Other fees payable | |
Temporary Authorities | $296.70 |
Temporary Licence | $296.70 |
Permanent Club Charters | $632.50 |
Extract from register | $57.50 |
Public notice of applications for new alcohol licences administration fee | $101.00 |
Premises Certificate of Compliance (Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act) | |
- Application A, existing licensed premises - change of business ownership (no other changes) | $187.00 |
- Application B, never been licenced or changes to licence | $312.00 |
2. Gambling | |
Application fee under the Gambling & TAB Venue Policy | $164.00 |
Item | Fee |
1. Environmental health recoveries | |
(i) Noise surveys | Actual costs recovered |
(ii) Court/Legal recoveries | Actual costs recovered |
(iii) Contaminated land / P-Lab / P-House testing | Actual costs recovered |
(iv) Noisy alarm deactivations | Actual costs recovered |
2. Offensive trades licences | |
(i) Annual premise registration - New or renewed registration | $295.00 |
(ii) Change of ownership | $100.00 |
3. Noise making equipment seizure and storage | |
(i) Staff time associated with managing equipment seizure | $100.00 |
(ii) Storage of seized equipment | $80.00 |
(iii) Noise contractor attendance (per unit) related to equipment seizure | $56.00 |
Compliance and investigations |
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Response to the Natural Built and Environmental Act (s781) (2)(a) cost recovery associated with compliance, monitoring and enforcement activities | $167.00 |
Seizure of signage | |
Impounding of non-compliant signage (made up of officer times, storage and administration) | $101.00 |
Licences (Other) | |
Amusement devices | $11.50 |
Item | Fee |
Cleanfills and waste handling operation licence application fee | $754.00 |
Cleanfills annual licence fee (based on 4 monitoring inspections during the year). | $2,657.00 |
Waste handling operation, annual licence fee | $380.00 |
Cleanfills and waste handling operation, additional monitoring fee (during the financial year) for cleanfills (per hour) | $174.00 |
Item | Fee |
Food Control Plans / National Programmes - New application | $430.00 |
Food Control Plan – Renewal fee (1 year) | $350.00 |
National Programme - Renewal fee (2 years) | $350.00 |
All administration time spent on Food Control Plans/National Programmes will be charged at the following 30-minute or hourly rate increments | |
Administration Officer – 30 minutes | $48.50 |
Administration Officer – 60 minutes | $97.00 |
Item | Fee |
Limited verification | $350.00 |
Standard verification | $612.50 |
Complex verification (Standard fee plus additional time at an hourly rate) | $612.50 plus additional time |
Additional charge for officer time - hourly rate | $175.00 |
Penalty for late payment of fees (Section 215 Food Act 2014) | 10% |
Cancelling a verification within 24 hours of the scheduled date/no person available for the audit | $175.00 |
Item | Fee |
Follow-up visit required for corrective action compliance | $350.00 |
Food Safety Officer visit | $350.00 |
Additional charge for visits per hour (if over two hours) | $175.00 |
Issue of an Enforcement Notice or Direction by a Food Safety Officer (per notice) | $175.00 |
Additional charge if issue of Enforcement Notice or Direction exceeds the first hour | $175.00 |
Application for review of issue of Improvement Notice | $175.00 |
Additional charge if an application for review of issue of Improvement Notice exceeds the first hour per hour | $175.00 |
Item | Annual fee |
HAR (Hairdressers) | $240.00 |
FND (Funeral Directors) | $396.00 |
FND (Funeral Directors - no mortuary, registration only) | $229.00 |
CMP (Camping Grounds) | $417.00 |
Item | Fee |
Additional inspections of premises other than food premises (includes request and additional registration/compliance visits from third visit each registration year | $229.00 |
Change of ownership of hairdresser, funeral director or campground | $115.00 |
Late payment of food premises registration and FCP verification fees | additional 10% |
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