Bill 58 (Legislature 6, Session 2)

L6 S2 9141

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 58 of 1928.

An Act to amend The Government Liquor Control Act of Alberta. (Assented to ,1928.) HIS MAJESTY. by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1.. This Act may be cited as "The Government Liquor Control Act of Alberta. Amendment Act, 1928." 2. The Gove'rnment Liquor Control Act of Albe'rta, being

chapter 14 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1924, is amended as to

section 2 thereof by adding as paragraph (ji), imme diately after paragraph (

j) thereof, the following: "(jj) 'Hamlet' shall mean any place not within the bound aries of any city, town or village, which is not more than one-half mile square in area and contains more than two separate buildings used as residences and at least one other building used for any business other than that of agriculture or a railway, and in which there is a resident population of not less than twenty, together with any quarter-section of land upon which any of such buildings are situate, and the quarter-section contiguous thereto, except such parts of any such quarter-sections as are included in any city, town or village."

Section 13 of the said Act is amended by ~triking out subsections (2) and (3) thereof and substitutin~ therefor the following: "

(2) Before the vendor shall make delivery of any liquor, other than beer, sold pursuant to this section, he shall- "(

a) have first received an order in writing, dated and signed by the purchaser, setting out the number of his permit and the kind and quantity of the liquor ordered; and " (

b) have received from the purchaser his permit and shall have endorsed thereon the kind and quantity of the liquor sold and the date of sale; and "(

c) have been paid the purchase price in cash. "

(3) A vendor may, in accordance with this Act, and the regulations made thereunder, sell and deliver beer to any

2 I person who is the holqer of a subsisting permit entitling him to purchase beer under this Act, and to a licensee who is the holder of a subsisting license under this Act to keep and sell beer; provided that no delivery of beer sold under the provisions of this

section shall take place until the pur chaser has paid for the same in the manner prescribed in. the regulations under this Act."

Section 39 of the said Act is amended as to subsection (1) thereof, by adding thereto the words "or to do anyone 01' more of such things."

Section 52 of the said Act is amended by striking out subsection (2) thereof, and substituting therefor the fol lQwing: "

(2) The Board, if of opinion that any such proprietary or patent medicine, extract, essence, tincture or preparation which contains alcohol, or any other preparation of a solid, semi-solid or liquid nature· containing alcohol which, or any extrac~ from which, can be used as a beverage or as the in gredient of any beverage, may, with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, prohibit the sale thereof by retail within the Province, or the possession of the sarrie for sale by retail within the Province, except by a Govern ment Liquor Store, or by persons duly licensed by the Board to keep and sell the same by retail in accordance with this Act and the reg,ulations made thereunder."

Section 53 of the said Act is amended by adding as subsection (2a) thereof, immediately after subsection (2), the following: "(2a) In the event of a petition being received from a hamlet, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may enlarge such hamlet by the additioil of territory contiguous thereto, and create the enlarged hamlet a local option area, and any territory so added shall for the purpose of this section, cease to form part of the municipality to which it belongs, for a period of hfo years from the taking of the plebiscite therein." 7. Sections 69 and 70 of the said Act are hereby struck out.

Section 71 of the said Act is amended by adding there to the following proviso: "Provided, however, that this

section shall not at any time operate to prevent the taking of a plebiscite in· any part of a municipal district or improvement district forming part of a hamlet enlarged under the provisions of

section 53."

Section 80 of the said Act is amended as to subsection (1) thereof, by adding at the end thereof the words "or beer."

Section 100a is added to the said Act immediately after

section 100, as follows: "100a. No person not expressly authorized by this Act to deal in liquor, shall within the Province keep for sale, offer for sale, or sell any thing which is labelled or branded with the name of any kind of liquor, whether the same con tains any liquor or not."

Section 108 of the said Act is amended as to subsec tion (1) thereof, by striking out paragraph (

a) thereof and substituting therefor the following: "(

a) to a fine of not less than three hundred dollars nor , more than one thousand dollars and costs, and in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment with hard labour for a period of not less than three months or more than six months."

No. 58. SECOND SESSION SIXTH LEGISLATURE 18 GEORGE V 1928 BILL

An Act to amend· The Government Liquor Control Act of Alberta. Received and read the First time .................... . Second time .................. . Third time ................... . HON. MR. LYMBURN EDMONTON: W. D. McLEAN, ACTING KINO'S PRINO. A.D. 1928 Title: 1928 (6th, 2nd) Bill 58,

An Act to amend The Government Liquor Control Act of Alberta

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