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2025, c.2 - An Act to Amend the Liquor Control Act

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2025, c.2
An Act to Amend the
Liquor Control Act
Assented to June 6, 2025
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, enacts as follows:
1The heading “Consumption of liquor in residence or on train” preceding section 43 of the Liquor Control Act, chapter L-10 of the Revised Statutes, 1973, is repealed.
2Section 43 of the Act is repealed.
3The heading “Respecting purchase or possession of liquor not purchased from Corporation” preceding section 134 of the Act is repealed and the following is substituted:
Purchase or possession of liquor
4Section 134 of the Act is repealed and the following is substituted:
134(1)In this section, “consumer” means an individual of the full age of 19 years who is not prohibited by law from possessing or consuming liquor.
134(2)Except as provided by this Act or the regulations, no person, personally or by the person’s clerk, employee, servant or agent, shall, within the Province, attempt to purchase or purchase, by any pretence or means, liquor from a person other than the Corporation.
134(3)Except as provided by this Act or the regulations, no person, personally or by the person’s clerk, employee, servant or agent, shall, within the Province, have or keep liquor purchased from a person other than the Corporation.
134(4)A consumer may import into the Province, for consumption in a residence, liquor that is purchased outside the Province by the consumer, or by a person from whom the consumer in good faith received the liquor as a gift, and carried or conveyed by the consumer into the Province.
4.1Subsection 134(4) of the Act is repealed and the following is substituted:
134(4)A consumer may import into the Province, for consumption in a residence, liquor that is
(a) purchased outside the Province by the consumer, or by a person from whom the consumer in good faith received the liquor as a gift, and carried or conveyed by the consumer into the Province, or
(b) purchased by the consumer from a person belonging to a class prescribed by regulation in another province or territory of Canada prescribed by regulation and shipped directly by that person.
5Subsection 200(1) of the Act is amended by adding after paragraph (q.5) the following:
(q.51) prescribing classes for the purposes of paragraph 134(4)(b);
(q.52) prescribing a province or territory for the purposes of paragraph 134(4)(b);
6Schedule A of the Act is amended by striking out
134(a)..............
E
134(b)..............
E
and substituting the following: 
134(2)..............
E
134(3)..............
E
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENT
Regulation under the Liquor Control Act
7Schedule A of New Brunswick Regulation 84-265 under the Liquor Control Act is amended by striking out “Violation of or failure to comply with paragraph 134(a) or (b) of the Act” and substituting “Violation of or failure to comply with subsection 134(2) or (3) of the Act”.
Commencement
8Sections 4.1 and 5 of this Act come into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation.