{"id":7840,"date":"2020-08-25T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:50:04","slug":"two-lismore-pubs-fined-over-breaches-of-covid-19-public-health-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/25\/two-lismore-pubs-fined-over-breaches-of-covid-19-public-health-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Lismore pubs fined over breaches of COVID-19 Public Health Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Lismore venues have been issued $5,000 fines following non-compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Orders.<br \/>\nAbout 11.45pm on Friday 21 August 2020, police were called to a hotel on Keen Street, Lismore, following reports a 20-year-old woman had been glassed.<br \/>\nThe woman was taken to Lismore Base Hospital for treatment, while a 27-year-old woman was arrested and taken to Lismore Police Station.<br \/>\nShe was charged with reckless wounding and granted conditional bail to appear at Lismore Local Court on Monday 21 September 2020.<br \/>\nAs a result of their investigation, licencing officers from Richmond Police District commenced inquiries into potential breaches of the NSW Liquor Act (2007) and potential breaches of the current COVID-19 Public Health Orders.<br \/>\nPolice will allege staff failed to eject a highly intoxicated person from the premises, while other patrons were not seated and were mingling between groups with no physical distancing on Friday 21 August 2020.<br \/>\nAs a result of these breaches, the 67-year-old male licensee was issued with two Penalty Infringement Notices yesterday (Monday 24 August 2020) for the offences of:<br \/>\n&#8211; Licensee permit intoxication on licensed premises &#8211; $1,100<br \/>\n&#8211; Not comply with noticed direction re s 7\/8\/9 \u2013 COVID 19 \u2013 Corporation \u2013 $5,000<br \/>\nRichmond PD licencing police also attended a second licensed premises on Keen Street on Saturday 22 August 2020 as part of ongoing business inspections in relation to COVID-19 Public Health Orders.<br \/>\nPolice will allege patrons were not signing into the venue, whilst also standing and mingling between groups with no physical distancing being observed. The venue also had an expired COVID-19 Safety Management Plan, and had previously received a warning from police for not having a plan in place.<br \/>\nFollowing further inquiries, the 60-year-old male licensee was issued with a $5,000 Penalty Infringement Notice for failing to comply with the noticed direction today (Tuesday 25 August 2020).<br \/>\nLicencing police will continue to enforce compliance checks at licensed premises and other venues across the state, to ensure the Public Health Orders are being adhered to.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Lismore venues have been issued $5,000 fines following non-compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Orders. About 11.45pm on Friday 21 August 2020, police were called to a hotel on Keen Street, Lismore, following reports a 20-year-old woman had been glassed. The woman was taken to Lismore Base Hospital for treatment, while a 27-year-old woman was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/25\/two-lismore-pubs-fined-over-breaches-of-covid-19-public-health-orders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Lismore pubs fined over breaches of COVID-19 Public Health Orders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}