City Council fees and charges for Regulatory Compliance Licensing and Registration services for 2024/2025.

  • Fees and charges set under section 150 and in accordance with section 83 of the Local Government Act 2002.
  • Set under the Special Consultative Procedure.
  • Fees set under the Annual Plan 2024/2025.
  • GST inclusive (15%).

Sale and supply of alcohol and gambling

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

Environmental health

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
 
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

Waste charges (cleanfill and waste handling)

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

Food Act 2014

New and renewal applications

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

Food control plan verification

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

Compliance and enforcement Fees

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

Other premises requiring health licensing registration

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

General fees

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%