Effect of dining-room licence, Special occasion use, waiting area, adjacent areas
89(1)A dining-room licence authorizes the licensee
(a)
to purchase liquor of all kinds from the Corporation and to sell that liquor for consumption by persons who are the full age of nineteen years, and are not otherwise disqualified under this Act from consuming liquor,
(i)
in the dining-room or in any other dining or reception area of the premises of the licensee approved by the Minister for special occasion use, with food, and
(ii)
in a person’s residence or in any residence in which the person is permitted by this Act to possess, have and consume liquor, if the liquor is sold
(A)
in accordance with the regulations, and
(B)
with food purchased for delivery or takeout, and
(b)
to allow a person to remove from the dining-room or dining or reception area approved by the Minister for special occasion use an unfinished container of wine that the person purchased for consumption in the dining-room or dining or reception area if the licensee or an employee or agent of the licensee closed the container for the person.
89(2)When the dining-room of a dining-room licensee, or any partitioned part thereof, is not open to the general public, it may be used for special occasion use, and during such use such dining-room or part thereof shall be subject to the provisions of the Act and regulations and orders of the Minister applicable to areas approved by the Minister pursuant to subsection (1).
89(3)Repealed: 1989, c.20, s.33
89(4)With the approval of the Minister, a dining-room licensee may designate an area which can accommodate not more than fifteen persons at any one time as a waiting area.
89(5)Within a waiting area, a dining-room licensee may sell liquor to any person who is waiting to be seated in the dining-room and to whom they could sell liquor in the dining-room, but the price of any liquor sold in a waiting area shall form part of the bill delivered for the meal subsequently taken in the dining-room.
89(6)The Minister may, at the time of application for a dining-room licence or upon application by a dining-room licensee after its issue, subject to such conditions as the Minister may attach, authorize the licensee to sell liquor of all kinds for consumption in an area designated by the Minister adjacent to and outside of the dining-room, including an area on lands that are leased or owned by the licensee and any area of which the true owner or, if a public place, over which the authority having jurisdiction, as the case may be, has given written permission to the licensee to sell liquor for consumption, and any reference in this Act to the dining-room or the premises of the dining-room includes a reference to an area so designated.
1961-62, c.3, s.84; 1966, c.76, s.2; 1969, c.49, s.2; 1972, c.5, s.2; 1972, c.43, s.8; 1974, c.26Â (Supp.), s.3, 4, 17; 1984, c.50, s.13; 1989, c.20, s.33; 1992, c.90, s.55; 2020, c.33, s.8