Extended trading hours

You can apply to permanently extend your trading hours or there are two options to occasionally extend your trading hours:

Occasional extended trading condition – all areas
Multi-occasional extended trading authorisation – regional and rural areas

Before you apply to extend your trading hours, you should check that your current development consent for the venue allows you to trade until the hours you are applying for.

Permanent extended trading hours

By law, standard trading hours, except for take-away liquor, are:

5am - midnight Monday to Sunday
10am - midnight Monday to Sunday for small bars.

Licensees who permanently trade after midnight are required to pay an annual trading hours risk loading:

Permanent authorised trading hours	Trading hours risk loading payable
Premises authorised to trade up to 1:30am on a regular basis	$3,203
Premises authorised to trade after 1:30am on a regular basis	$6,400

Note: Venues whose licensees and managers have not incurred any demerit points in the last three years will be given a 5% discount on annual liquor licence fees on base fee and trading hours risk loading.

You are able to apply to trade outside the standard trading period by submitting an extended trading authorisation application using the link applicable to your licence type found in the table below.

Information on licence type	Extended trading authorisation form
Hotel licence	Hotel extended trading authorisation
Club licence	Club extended trading authorisation
On-premises	On-premises extended trading authorisation
Small bar	Small Bar extended trading authorisation
Producer/wholesaler	Producer/Wholesaler extended trading authorisation
Packaged liquor	Packaged Liquor extended trading authorisation

Occasional extended trading condition

If you are a licensee permitted to trade after midnight, you can reduce your annual liquor licence fee by applying for an occasional extended trading condition (OETC) for your licence.

This condition means you can only trade past midnight or 1.30am on up to 12 occasions over any 12-month period.

Licensees with an OETC:

who occasionally trade after midnight do not pay trading hours risk loading.
that allows regular trading up until 1:30am, and occasional trading after 1.30am, are required to pay a $3,203 trading hours risk loading.

Compare loading with and without an OETC:

Without OETC (Permanent extended trading)		With OETC
Authorised trading hours	Trading hours risk loading payable	Authorised trading hours	Trading hours risk loading payable	OETC
After midnight, up to 1.30am	$3,203	Up to midnight only	Nil	Allows trading past midnight up to 12 occasions in any 12-month period
Past 1.30am	$6,400	Up to 1.30am	$3,203	Allows trading past 1.30am up to 12 occasions in any 12-month period

Note: Venues whose licensees and managers have not incurred any demerit points in the last three years will be given a 5% discount on annual liquor licence fees on base fee and trading hours risk loading.

Note: If you have an OETC:

you must submit an occasional trading notification form to us at least 14 days before each late trading occasion
you only need to reapply if your circumstances have changed.

Apply: Occasional Extended Trading Condition Application

Online form: Notify us of your events

Multi-occasional extended trading authorisation

The multi-occasional extended trading authorisation (MOETA) allows you to trade to 3am 12 times over a 12-month period.

This option is available for regional venues only that:

are authorised to trade past midnight, but rarely do
would like to reduce their trading hours fee
have standard trading hours
would like to occasionally trade past midnight.

The MOETA attracts an annual loading of $1,281.

Note: Venues whose licensees and managers have not incurred any demerit points in the last three years will be given a 5% discount on annual liquor licence fees on base fee and trading hours risk loading.

Apply: AM0020M Extended trading authorisation: multi-occasion PDF, 931.22 KB

Online form: Notify us of your events