Temporarily changing your trading hours

All licensees (except community—other licensees) can apply to temporarily extend trading hours before 10am. Alcohol must be consumed on the premises only.

You can apply for the following extensions:

• from 7 to 9am—for lawn bowls clubs, golf clubs or any community clubs that can demonstrate a need, or other licensees for bona fide functions
• from 9 to 10am—for any licensee (except community—other licensees) who can demonstrate a need.

Temporary extensions to trading hours before 10am will only be issued for 4 dates in any 1-year period.

Read Guideline 46: Demonstrated community need for pre-10am trading for more information.

You can apply to temporarily trade between midnight and 5am.

This extension is only available when someone other than the licensee, owner or occupier (i.e. an independent third party) wants to celebrate a special occasion at the licensed premises.

The approval will only cover the special occasion and a reasonable time before and after it.

Read Guideline 68: Late-night extended hours permit for more information on:

• what's considered a reasonable time before or after the special occasion
• the types of special events that don't need you to submit evidence with your application—for example, you don't need evidence of an independent third party's request if the special occasion benefits your customers.

A temporary extension is only available for a maximum of 6 dates in a calendar year (inclusive of New Year's Eve and Australia Day) and can be used on only 1 day per calendar month.

If the special occasion will run over 2 or more consecutive days in a calendar month, you can still apply for a permit to cover it, if it's for the same special occasion. If 2 dates are approved, this will count towards the maximum 6 annual dates you're allowed.

For new licensees, the number of available permits in a calendar year is reduced depending on when your new licence is approved. For example, if your new licence was approved on 20 April, there'd be 8 months left in that calendar year, so you could apply for up to 4 permits before 31 December that year.