City Council fees and charges for Regulatory Compliance Licensing and Registration services for 2025/2026.

  • 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 2025/2026.
  • 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 $105.00
Premises Certificate of Compliance (Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act)  
- Application A, existing licensed premises - change of business ownership (no other changes) $195.00
- Application B, never been licenced or changes to licence $325.00
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 $307.10
(ii) Change of ownership $104.00
3. Noise making equipment seizure and storage  
(i) Staff time associated with managing equipment seizure $104.00
(ii) Storage of seized equipment $83.00
(iii) Noise contractor attendance (per unit) related to equipment seizure $58.00
Compliance and investigations
  
Response to the Natural Built and Environmental Act (s781) (2)(a) cost recovery associated with compliance, monitoring and enforcement activities $173.00
Seizure of signage  
Impounding of non-compliant signage (made up of officer times, storage and administration) $105.00
Licences (Other)  
Amusement devices $11.50

Item Fee
Cleanfills and waste handling operation licence application fee $785.00
Cleanfills annual licence fee (based on 4 monitoring inspections during the year). $2,765.00
Waste handling operation, annual licence fee $395.00
Cleanfills and waste handling operation, additional monitoring fee (during the financial year) for cleanfills (per hour) $181.00

New and renewal applications

Item Fee
Food Control Plans / National Programmes - New application $365.00
Food Control Plan – Renewal fee (1 year) $195.00
National Programme - Renewal fee (2 years) $195.00
Administration time
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 $60.00
Administration Officer – 60 minutes $120.00
MPI system access levy – applied for registrations or renewals annually $66.13
MPI collection levy fee $12.65

Food control plan verification

Item Fee
Limited verification $390.00
Standard verification $650.00
Complex verification (Standard fee plus additional time at an hourly rate) $650.00 plus additional time
Additional charge for officer time - hourly rate $195.00
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 $195.00

Compliance and enforcement Fees

Item Fee
Follow-up visit required for corrective action compliance $390.00
Food Safety Officer compliance visit $390.00
Additional charge if Issue of Improvement Notice or Direction exceeds the first hour $195.00
Issue of an Enforcement Notice or Direction by a Food Safety Officer (per notice) $195.00
Additional charge if issue of Enforcement Notice or Direction exceeds the first hour $195.00
Application for review of issue of Improvement Notice $195.00
Additional charge if an application for review of issue of Improvement Notice exceeds the first hour per hour $195.00

Item Annual fee
HAR (Hairdressers) $250.00
FND (Funeral Directors) $412.00
FND (Funeral Directors - no mortuary, registration only) $238.00
CMP (Camping Grounds) $434.00

Item Fee
Additional inspections of premises other than food premises (includes request and additional registration/compliance visits from third visit each registration year $238.00
Change of ownership of hairdresser, funeral director or campground $120.00
Late payment of food premises registration and FCP verification fees additional 10%