Use of liquor by hospital, sanatorium or old age home
58(1)A person in charge of an institution regularly conducted as
(a)
a hospital facility or sanatorium for the care of persons in ill health, or
(b)
a home devoted exclusively to the care of aged people,
may administer or cause to be administered liquor to a patient or inmate of the institution who is in need of the same, either by way of external application or otherwise for emergency medicinal purposes and may charge for the liquor so administered or caused to be administered.
58(2)No liquor shall be administered or caused to be administered by a person under this section except to
bona fide patients or inmates of the institution and in cases of actual need.
1961-62, c.3, s.56; 1992, c.52, s.18