Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 65

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

LIQUOR CONTROL ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

LOYOLA SULLIVAN

Minister

of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

The purpose of this Bill is to repeal

and replace

section 30 of the Liquor

Control Act in order to remove the March 31 expiry date for licences issued

under that Act.

This Bill would also amend

section 48

of the Act to allow the lapsing of inactive licences.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LIQUOR CONTROL ACT

Analysis

S.30 R&S

Effective date of licence

S.48 Amdt.

Licence cancelled

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cL-18 as

amended

Section 30 of the Liquor Control Ac t is repealed and the following substituted:

Effective date of

licence

(1) A

licence becomes effective on the date stated in it as the effective date or,

where no effective date is stated, on the date of the issue of the licence.

(2) A licence continues in effect until

(

a) cancelled at the request of the licensee; or

(

b) suspended or cancelled by the board.

Section 48 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (2) the following:

(3) Where, after a period of time that the board

may establish, there has been no purchase or sale of wine, beer or spirits

under a licence, that licence shall be considered to have lapsed and may be cancelled

by the board.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer