Services For You: Liquor Sales Licensee

Making changes or additions to your establishment? This is what you need to know.

Licensees with valid liquor sales licences may apply to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) for additional licensed areas and/or building alterations to an existing licence.

An application is not required for the following changes to a licensed establishment:

Change to décor
Installation or relocation of doors
Creation of openings to existing walls/partitions that separate the licensed and unlicensed area, providing after the change, the partition and/or wall is 36"/.9M or higher
Removal of wall openings, arches, etc. to combine two or more areas into one area
Installation or removal of windows
Installation or removal of weather breaks, buffets, or server stations

* Note: You must advise the Commission in writing within 30 days of making such changes.

For all other alterations such as adding licensed areas or increasing seating capacity in existing licensed areas an application must be submitted.

For additional information regarding applications for additions and/or building alterations, download our "Application for Changes or Additions to Existing Licensed Areas" located at the end of the page where you will also find all relevant application forms in PDF format.

Please mail your completed application, including all attachments, and appropriate alcohol licensing fee to the address listed below.

Application Process

PDF Instructions

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Application Forms and Guides

Public Notice of Application

All Pursuant to Section 7(1) of the Liquor Licence Act,

Subject to subsection (2), the Registrar shall give notice of an application for a licence to sell liquor to the residents of the municipality in which the premises are located by giving notice,

in the prescribed manner in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality; and
in any other manner that the Registrar considers desirable.

Registrar's Directive for Public Notice of Application

On August 1st, 2003, Section 7 of Ontario Regulation 719 that prescribed the public notice of application requirements was revoked. Effective August 1st, 2003, for the purposes of clause 7 (1) (b) of the Liquor Licence Act, notice of an application for a licence to sell liquor must be given in the manner described below:

The Registrar of Alcohol and Gaming shall provide to an applicant a written notice concerning the application.
The notice shall be posted on the premises to be licensed in a place in which members of the public can easily read the contents of the notice.
If the premises to be licensed is a boat, the notice shall be posted at the home ports of the boat in a place in which members of the public can easily read the contents of the notice.
No notice is required to be posted if the premises to be licensed is a railway car.
The notice shall remain posted for at least thirty (30) days, unless the Registrar requires a different time period, before the date specified in the notice as the date by which written objections to the issuance of a licence must be received by the Registrar of Alcohol and Gaming.

Effective: August 1, 2003

Important Application Reminders

For PDF forms completed online or offline, please ensure ALL the input information has printed out on your application.
For PDF forms filled-in by hand, please ensure you PRINT legibly in black ink.
Please ensure ALL required questions are completed. Incomplete, improperly completed or unsigned applications will be returned to applicant.
Do not email application forms. Mail application(s) along with ALL supporting documents to:

Alcohol and Gaming Commission
Licensing and Registration
90 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M2N 0A4