Second Session, 44th General Assembly

49 Elizabeth II, 2000

BILL 47

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LIQUOR CONTROL ACT NO. 2

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE LLOYD MATTHEWS

Minister of Finance

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Liquor Control Act to give the liquor licensing board, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, the authority to make regulations respecting minimum prices that licence holders may charge for liquor.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LIQUOR CONTROL ACT NO. 2

Analysis

1. S.61(1) Amdt.

Regulations

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSN1990 cL-18

as amended

1. Subsection 61(1) of the Liquor Control Act is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (

b) the following:

(b.1) prescribe, with respect to alcoholic liquor sold and consumed on licensed premises, the minimum prices at which alcoholic liquor shall be sold to a patron;

©Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer