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Producers may sell their liquor to both retail (the general public) and wholesale (restaurants, bottle shops) customers. If you do not qualify as a producer you can only sell liquor to wholesale customers.
A producer must produce liquor on the licensed premises. You are not considered a liquor producer if you use someone else’s licensed premises to produce liquor.
1. If you produce a key ingredient in beer or spirit production (such as hops or truffles) you are a primary producer. If the liquor product is uniquely your own, even if you contract production to a third party, you are considered to be a producer.
2. If you own a vineyard within 500 metres of your licensed premises, you still qualify as a wine producer as you grow the grapes, even if you use a contract winemaker
Liquor producers, such as winemakers, brewers and distillers, can also:
Liquor producers can also apply for a drink-on premises authorisation to sell alcohol for consumption on the premises.
Liquor producers can also apply for a pop-up promotional licence PDF, 845.16 KB to provide tastings of their products at ‘pop-up promotions’ and sell them for take-away. Find out more about pop up licences here.
Wholesalers don’t qualify as producers and are only permitted to sell liquor by wholesale to those who have a liquor licence, for example restaurants, bottle shops, and pubs.
Common types of licensed premises for wholesale only liquor applications:
When applying for an online wholesale only liquor licence:
The Government has introduced a special drink-on-premises authorisation for small-scale producers of beer, wine, cider and spirits.
Your application can take longer to review if we don’t have all the details we need to assess it. We will come back to you to obtain the missing information to progress your application. You can help us speed up the process by:
The information below will help you to prepare your application and gather all the necessary materials for your licence. However, if you're ready now...
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Application Notices:
Once your application is lodged, you will be provided with a Public Site Notice which you will need to affix to your premises until the application is granted. Council and Police will be automatically notified of your application.
A paper form version of the site notices can be downloaded below if you wish to complete them manually at your convenience prior to lodgement of your application.
Download: Forms for this licence
The licensee and all staff involved in selling, serving or supplying alcohol need to have completed an approved Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) course and hold a valid NSW competency card.
This requirement also applies to security staff and promotional staff conducting tastings on premises.
The Liquor Regulation 2018 introduced an additional two courses for licensees and managers:
Only licensees and managers of producer/wholesaler liquor licences that also have a drink on premises authorisation (DOPA) are required to complete a Licensee Training or Advanced Licensee Training course.
For information about Licensee and Advanced Licensee Training, visit our what type of training do I need page.
It is best practice to keep copies of your and your staff’s qualifications in a register on the premises.
A producer may sell their licensee’s product to other licensees (wholesales) at any time within the council development approval hours.
Tastings of their licensee’s product can be conducted at any time, except where a 6-hour closure period applies.
An application can be made to the Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) for an extended trading authorisation to allow take-away trading of the licensee’s product to the public.
Subject to your development approval, your venue might be permitted to sell liquor for consumption on site, through a drink on premises authorisation.
See below table regarding standard and extended trading hours for both Tastings/Take away sales and Consumption on premises.
Tastings/Take away sales trading hours
Standard hours
Monday to Saturday
5:00am - 12:00am
Sunday
10:00am - 10:00pm
Extended trading hours
Normal Sunday
5:00am - 10:00am and/or10:00pm - 11:00pm
Sunday on 24 or 31 December
10:00pm - 12:00am
Consumption on premises trading hours
Monday to Sunday
12:00am - 5:00amA Statement of Risks and Potential Effects (SoRPE) is required for any extended trading application after 12:00am.
A 6-hour closure period applies to all liquor licences, including those with extended trading hours. It usually starts at 4.00am and ends at 10.00am each day.
You can apply to change the 6-hour closure period:
In your application, you need to provide detail on:
Exception from requirement that licensee not be absent > 6 weeks PDF, 262.23 KB
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It contains at least the following percentage of wine:
50% of wine: produced by or under the direction of the licensee, or a related corporation of the licensee, on the wine producer’s licensed premises or a vineyard related to the licensed premises
A vineyard is deemed to be related to the licensed premises if:
The licensee’s product is liquor that is uniquely the licensee’s, or a related corporation of the licensee’s, own product.
This has been produced:
A wine producer can apply to sell their licensee’s product at more than one premises without the need to hold multiple licences, as long as the premises:
Multiple premises can include an additional winery or retail premises like a cellar door where the licensee’s product is sold to the public.
Note. If you wish to have more than one premises, relating to an existing liquor licence, you need to lodge a change of boundaries application through the liquor licence manager
If you do not have a liquor licence, you will need to apply and have your liquor licence granted before you can apply for an additional premises.
Cider, perry and mead producers can have more than one premises if:
Note. If you wish to have more than one premises, relating to an existing liquor licence, you need to lodge a change of boundaries application through the liquor licence manager.
Beer and spirit producers can have more than one premises if:
If you do not have a liquor licence you will need to apply and have your liquor licence granted before you can apply for an additional premises.
Some brewers produce their product on someone else’s licensed premises and do not qualify as a producer under the Liquor Act 2007.
The wholesale/producer licence will suit your needs if you only wish to sell your product to other licensees as a wholesale supplier. You will not be able to sell to the general public.
If you are a brewer without equipment and you wish to sell your product to the general public from an office or similar location, a packaged liquor licence will be a better fit for you.
This permits online sales where goods are delivered directly to the customer’s nominated address, with no walk-up sales from members of the public.
If the liquor licence is held by a corporation, a related corporation of a licensee means a corporation that is a related body corporate within the meaning of the Commonwealth Corporations Act 2001.
If the liquor licence is held by an individual, a related corporation of a licensee means a corporation that employs the licensee, or in respect of which the licensee occupies a position of authority.
Under the liquor laws, a tasting is a sampling of a small amount of a particular product usually for the first time or when deciding to purchase a larger quantity of the product.
It does not include sampling to the extent that it is no longer ancillary to a proposed take-away purchase.
An industry liquor show is a wine, beer, spirits or other liquor show that is held by an industry association where a producer can sell and supply their licensee’s product directly to the public.
The sale or supply of the licensee’s product at these events is for customers to taste or take-away sales in sealed containers.
A producers’ market or fair is an event primarily held to promote and sell produce from the hospitality industry, or a particular region.
The organiser of a show, market or fair must notify the local police, the local council and ILGA of the event at least seven days before it is held.
Your application costs include:
Use our Liquor Fee Schedule to calculate your fee.
Pro-rata annual liquor licence fee
A producer/wholesaler licence is subject to a pro-rata annual liquor licence fee depending on the time of year your liquor licence is granted.
The fee is calculated on a quarterly basis and reflects the amount of time you use the licence before the next billing cycle (on 15 March the following year). Calculate your pro-rata fee.
Annual liquor licence fee
A producer/wholesaler licence is subject to an annual liquor licence fee, due in May each year. Read more about annual liquor licence fees.
This form contains a list of standard conditions which the Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority and/or its delegates may impose if the licence is granted.
The Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority and/or its delegates may impose additional or alternative conditions if warranted. However, the party seeking additional or alternative conditions must demonstrate the need for those conditions.
If you would like to seek alternate conditions, and/or additional conditions, please indicate the relevant condition number, alternative condition text and/or additional condition as well as the reasons in the space provided below the conditions list. You can attach additional information on separate pages if required.
Please attach the completed form to your online liquor licence application at lodgement.
Lodging this form with your liquor licence application will reduce the processing time.
You must be 18 years or older and authorised to lodge this licence application.
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Once your application is lodged, you will receive a site notice. This notice must be affixed to the location of the proposed licensed premises and must be provided to the occupiers of surrounding buildings.
We will advertise your application on the Liquor and Gaming Application Noticeboard for 30 days during which the community can comment on your application.
Use our online feedback form to send us your questions, suggestions or feedback. You can also:
Call: 1300 024 720 | Monday to Friday 9am - 4pm
Email: contact.us@liquorandgaming.nsw.gov.au
Access the Liquor Act 2007 and the Liquor Regulation 2018
