Doyalson Wyee RSL Club Ltd & Ors v Liquor Administration Board of NSW & Anor [2007] NSWSC 910

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Doyalson Wyee RSL Club Ltd & Ors v Liquor Administration Board of NSW & Anor [2007] NSWSC 910

HEARING DATE(S) : 23 July 2007 JURISDICTION : Common Law Division Administrative Law List

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 24 July 2007

DECISION : Summons in each matter dismissed with costs

CATCHWORDS : LIQUOR & GAMING – Gaming machines – poker machine entitlements – where club had authorisations for poker machines prior to freeze and obtained additional hardship approvals during freeze – allocation of poker machine entitlements in respect of the hardship machines – textual indication – extraneous material – provisions incapable of resolution – dominant intention

(NSW) Gaming Legislation Amendment (Gaming Machine Restrictions) Act 2000 ss 88AD, 88AE, 88AF LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Gaming Machines Act 2001 ss 7, 14, 15, 15AA, 15A, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28, 29, 31, 31A, 56; Pt 3, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3; Pt 5 (NSW) Gaming Machines Bill 2001, Explanatory Memorandum (NSW) Registered Clubs Act 1976 Pt 10, 10B; ss 77, 78, 78A, 88AD, 88AE, 88AF

Rooty Hill RSL Ltd v Liquor Administration Board of NSW [2006] NSWCA 297 CASES CITED : Text: Second Reading Speech, Gaming Machines Bill, Hansard, Legislative Assembly, 30 November 2001, p 19275 Pearce and Geddes, Statutory Interpretation in Australia, 4th ed

Doyalson Wyee RSL Club Limited (plaintiff, 30010/07) Merrylands Bowling Sporting & Recreational Club Limited (plaintiff, 30031/07) PARTIES : Lemon Tree Passage Bowling Club Co-Op Ltd (plaintiff, 30032/07) Erina Rugby League Club Limited (plaintiff, 30034/07) Liquor Administration Board of NSW (first defendant, all proceedings) Attorney General of the State of New South Wales (second defendant, all proceedings)