Liquor guidelines

Read the Commissioner's liquor guidelines to understand your obligations under relevant legislation in Queensland, including the Liquor Act 1992.

Guideline 51: Preparing an acoustic report has replaced the previous Guideline 50: Acoustic consultants from 1 July 2019.

To assist with this transition, the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) will accept reports completed under Guideline 50 until 29 February 2020.

Guideline 01: Register of licences and permits
Guideline 07: Fit and proper or suitable person
Guideline 08: Definition of 'regular basis'
Guideline 09: Advertising (display of notice)
Guideline 10: Conduct of other business
Guideline 11: Under-age events and all ages events
Guideline 12: Advertising packages including a meal or accommodation and alcoholic beverages
Guideline 14: Particulars to be displayed on licensed premises
Guideline 16: Control of entertainment noise
Guideline 20: Wine licence trading hours on special days
Guideline 23: Food courts
Guideline 26: Standard of premises - toilets
Guideline 29: Requirements for application for satellite cellar door
Guideline 31: Gratuitous supply of liquor
Guideline 32: Community liquor permits and commercial public event permits (approvals for high risk public events)
Guideline 33: High risk community and commercial public events
Guideline 34: Satellite cellar doors
Guideline 35: Licensed areas
Guideline 36: Relocation of detached bottle shops
Guideline 37: Sale of liquor from premises that also sell petrol
Guideline 38: Community impact statement
Guideline 39: 'Other premises' for community club licences
Guideline 40: Applications to alter, rebuild, change or increase the area of the licensed premises
Guideline 41: Sale of complementary goods at bottle shops and liquor barns
Guideline 42: Risk-assessed management plan (RAMP)
Guideline 43: Approved managers
Guideline 46: Demonstrated community need for pre-10am trading
Guideline 48: Allowable absences
Guideline 49: Use of car park
Guideline 50: Acoustic consultants
Guideline 51: Preparing an acoustic report
Guideline 52: Bar licences
Guideline 55: Commercial other (subsidiary on-premises) licence - café
Guideline 56: Payment of annual liquor licence fees by instalments
Guideline 57: Detached bottle shops further than 10km from main hotel premises
Guideline 58: Unduly intoxicated
Guideline 59: Declaration of licensed premises (or part of) as 'not regulated for ID scanning'
Guideline 60: Unacceptable liquor practices and promotions in licensed venues
Guideline 61: Commercial kitchen
Guideline 62: Function room
Guideline 64: Privacy obligations for establishing and operating identification scanning systems
Guideline 65: Temporary changes to regulated hours for ID scanning
Guideline 66: Temporary removal of noise conditions

Last reviewed: 19 Dec 2019
Last updated: 07 Jan 2020

Contact

General enquiries 13 QGOV (13 74 68)

Licence and permit enquiries

OLGRlicensing@justice.qld.gov.au

Gaming compliance enquiries

gamingcompliance@justice.qld.gov.au

Liquor compliance enquiries

liquorcompliance@justice.qld.gov.au

Media enquiries (07) 3738 8556

OLGRMedia@justice.qld.gov.au

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