Liquor, Gaming & Wagering Licensing

From the licence, its conditions, the approved plans and authorisations and the regulator's correspondence the lawyer uploads, extract each condition, trading-hour limit, approval, renewal and fee date and reporting obligation into a calendar with the source clause for each.

The lawyer checks each entry against the licence and conditions, adds any obligation the statute imposes that the licence does not repeat, and confirms the dates.

From the official records the lawyer selects (maps, the register of licensed premises, the council's community plans and published data sets), list the sensitive facilities and licensed premises within the radius the lawyer sets, with distance and source for each, and the community data points with their source and date.

The lawyer confirms each facility and premises exists and is correctly located, decides which data sets are reliable and current, and decides what the profile shows.

Working with the lawyer from the locality profile, the consultation records, the business plan and the proposed controls, draft the submission in the regulator's form, with every factual statement tied to a source.

The lawyer settles the submission, checks every statement about the community, the consultation and the controls against the records, and confirms the applicant can stand behind it before it is lodged.

From the objections and the police and council submissions the regulator forwards, list each by author, date, the grounds stated in the author's own words and the evidence attached, with page references.

The lawyer reads each objection, decides which statutory ground it engages and whether it was made in time and by a person entitled to object, and decides how to respond.

Working with the lawyer from the objections index, the community impact submission and the proposed conditions, draft a response to each objection and submission, with the evidence and the conditions offered in reply.

The lawyer settles each response, decides which conditions to offer, checks every factual statement against the records, and confirms the client accepts the conditions offered.

From the complaint, the regulator's or police evidence and the venue's records, extract each allegation with its evidence and the venue records that bear on it, and index the records. The tool writes nothing in the response.

The lawyer writes the response, decides what to admit and contest, addresses the licensee's fitness and the proposed sanction, and checks every fact relied on.

Working with the lawyer from the operator's marketing calendar, inducement offers, affiliate agreements and onboarding flow, list each activity against the advertising, inducement, commission and BetStop rules the lawyer identifies, with the date each rule applies from.

The lawyer decides which rules apply to each activity before and after 1 January 2027, whether any activity breaches them, and what the operator must change.

From the product description, the operator's licences and its terms, extract the features of the service (type of gambling, in-play betting, lottery outcomes, credit, where it is licensed) into a table. The tool does not write the advice.

The lawyer decides whether the service is a prohibited or regulated interactive gambling service, whether it may be advertised, what licence it needs, and writes the advice.

From the sale contract, the outgoing licensee’s consent, the incoming licensee’s company extract and experience, and the regulator’s current online form, populate the transfer application, calculate the earliest intended transfer date, and build the settlement checklist linking the transfer steps to completion under the contract.

The lawyer confirms the proposed licensee and its people meet the regulator’s requirements, sets the transfer date against settlement, checks the contract makes completion conditional on provisional approval where needed, and confirms every application detail before lodgement.

From the venue’s licence conditions, accord membership and gaming authorisations, list which incident registers the venue must keep, then check a sample of the registers against the required content, the CCTV and security logs and the staff rosters, and list missing, late or incomplete entries.

The lawyer confirms which registers the venue must keep, decides whether the gaps found are breaches and how serious, and advises on corrective steps and how to answer an inspector who asks for the registers.

From the venue profile, the local area’s classification, the venue’s gaming data and the proposed community benefits, identify whether a local impact assessment is needed and which class, and draft the application and the assessment sections from the regulator’s current guidance and the firm’s precedent, citing the data source for each figure.

The lawyer confirms the band and the class of assessment required, checks every figure and claimed benefit against its source, decides what commitments the venue can actually make, and settles the application before lodgement.

From the venue’s gaming operations, cash handling procedures, loyalty program and staffing, map the AUSTRAC obligations that apply to a pub or club with electronic gaming machines (enrolment, the AML/CTF program, customer identification, suspicious matter and threshold transaction reporting, record keeping), and draft the program sections and the reporting procedures from the regulatory guide and the firm’s template.

The lawyer confirms which designated services the venue provides and whether any exemption applies, checks the program describes the venue’s actual risks and controls, confirms the reporting procedures name who reports and by when, and arranges for the program’s approval by the venue’s governing body.

From the promotion brief, the prize list and value, the entry mechanics and the states and territories where it will run, build a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction table of whether the promotion is a lottery needing a permit or licence, the threshold and category that applies, the fee band, and the conditions an exempt promotion must still meet.

The lawyer confirms the mechanics are a trade promotion lottery rather than a game of skill or unlawful gambling, checks each jurisdiction’s threshold and category against the current regulator pages, and settles the terms and the permit applications.

From the event brief, the site plan, the expected attendance and hours, and the organiser’s details, populate the regulator’s special event licence application, calculate the latest on-time lodgement date, list the conditions and training the event’s size and hours trigger, and draft the event’s liquor management plan from the firm’s template.

The lawyer confirms the event qualifies for the licence type (alcohol is not the sole reason for the event), checks the management plan’s controls are ones the organiser will actually run, anticipates police and council comments, and settles the application before lodgement.

From the rosters, payroll list and the copies of staff competency cards and interim certificates, build a register of every person who serves alcohol or works in gaming, the training each holds, the card or certificate number and expiry, and flag anyone rostered to those duties without a current qualification.

The lawyer confirms which duties require which qualification under the venue’s licence and the law, decides how to deal with any staff member flagged, and advises the licensee on the record an inspector will expect.