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%).

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
  
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

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

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%