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Licensee

Cross-cutting

The natural or legal person holding the venue's liquor or gaming-machine licence. For a registered club, this is typically the club entity itself (a company limited by guarantee). For a hotel, this is usually a natural person or trading entity. The licensee carries primary liability for breaches; the secretary-manager (clubs) or nominated manager (hotels) carries day-to-day operational liability.

This term sits in the cross-cutting section of the working glossary — concepts that recur across multiple regulatory domains rather than belonging to one statute.

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