First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 11

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

LIQUOR CONTROL ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

THOMAS W. MARSHALL, Q.C.

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Liquor Control Act to:

define a "brew restaurant"

and a "microbrewery";

remove the requirement that beer

sold for off site consumption must be sold in a package of 6 bottles or more;

and

allow a brewer who owns and

operates a brew restaurant to sell beer by the glass or open bottle to guests

at meals for consumption at the brew restaurant.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LIQUOR CONTROL ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

S.28 R&S

Beer vendor's licence

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cL-18 as

amended

(1) Section 2 of the Liquor Control Act is amended by adding immediately after paragraph

2(

d) the following:

(d.1) "brew restaurant" means a restaurant

that offers a full service menu and has a microbrewery on the premises;

(2) Section 2 of the Act is amended by repealing

paragraph 2(e).

(3) Section 2 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after paragraph (

r) the following:

(r.1) "microbrewery" means a small

capacity brewery that produces less than 5,000 hectolitres of beer per year;

Section 28 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Beer vendor's licence

(1) The

board may grant a licence to

(

a) a brewer who is licensed under the Liquor Corporation Act or an association

of 2 or more brewers;

(

b) a person who has been approved by the board as

an agent of a brewer, or of an association of 2 or more brewers, licensed under

the Liquor Corporation Act ; or

(

c) a person who has been recommended as a

distributor by one or more brewers who are licensed under the Liquor Corporation Act,

to sell beer to a person who is not

disqualified to purchase it under this Act or the regulations, for consumption

off the premises where beer is sold.

(2) A licence that is granted under subsection

(1) is valid only in respect of the premises described in the licence.

(3) A brewer or an association of brewers, a

brewers agent, a distributor or the agent or employee of either of them shall

not sell or deliver beer except under a licence issued under and in accordance

with subsection (1).

(4) A brewer, an association of brewers, a

brewers agent, a distributor or the agent or employee of either of them shall

not

(

a) sell;

(

b) deliver;

(

c) advertise for sale; or

(

d) store

beer except in the container and package

sizes approved by the corporation.

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), a brewer who

owns and operates a brew restaurant is permitted to sell beer by the glass or

open bottle to guests at meals for consumption at the brew restaurant.

(6) A person who contravenes this

section is

guilty of an offence.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer