Issuance of special facility licence
99.1(1)A special facility licence may be issued to
(a)
any person operating premises the use of which includes such sporting, cultural, theatrical or other similar activities as may be prescribed by regulation or approved by the Minister,
(b)
the owner or operator of a trade and convention centre,
(b.1)
the owner or operator of a hotel or motel who is not the holder of any other licence and who wishes to enable a registered guest of the hotel or motel to operate a mini-bar in the room of the registered guest,
(c)
a person who has entered into an agreement with a federal, provincial or municipal authority to provide food and liquor facilities in a federal, provincial or municipal park,
(d)
any person who operates within the Province an excursion boat, or
(e)
any other person who is the owner or operator of premises that are considered by the Minister to be suitable for the issuance of a special facility licence.
99.1(2)Repealed: 1992, c.90, s.61
Consumption of liquor in area adjacent to special facility
99.1(2.1)The Minister may, at the time of application for a special facility licence or upon application by a special facility 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 special facility, 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 premises of the special facility includes a reference to an area so designated.
99.1(2.2)Notwithstanding subsection (2.1), the Minister, if issuing a special facility licence to the holder of a brewer’s licence, a distiller’s licence or a winery licence, shall issue the licence only in respect of one premises, which shall be the licence holder’s principal manufacturing site in the Province.
Effect of special facility licence
99.1(3)A special facility licence issued under paragraph (1)(
a), (
b), (
c), (
d) or (
e) authorizes the licensee to purchase from the Corporation liquor of all kinds and to sell or serve liquor so purchased, with or without meals, for consumption only in those areas of the premises of the licensee approved by the Minister and under such conditions as may be attached by the Minister, by persons who are of the full age of nineteen years and are not otherwise disqualified under this Act from consuming liquor.
Operation of mini-bar in guest’s room
99.1(3.1)A special facility licence issued under paragraph (1)(
b.1) authorizes the special facility licensee to purchase from the Corporation liquor of all kinds and to sell that liquor, in compliance with such conditions as may be attached by the Minister, to a registered guest of the licensee who is of the full age of nineteen years and is not otherwise disqualified under this Act from having or consuming liquor, for the purpose of serving the liquor from a mini-bar in the guest’s room for consumption in that room, with or without a meal, by persons who are of the full age of nineteen years and are not otherwise disqualified under this Act from having or consuming liquor.
99.1(3.2)A person who operates a mini-bar authorized under a special facility licence shall do so in accordance with the conditions attached by the Minister to that licence and with all applicable provisions of this Act and the regulations.
Licence to corporation operating commercial airline passenger service
99.1(4)Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, upon application to the Minister and payment of the prescribed fee, the Minister may issue a special facility licence to any corporation maintaining and operating a commercial airline passenger service in the Province.
Licence to corporation operating commercial airline passenger service
99.1(5)A special facility licence issued under subsection (4) authorizes the licensee to purchase liquor of all kinds from the Corporation or elsewhere as may be authorized by the Minister and to sell or serve the liquor so purchased to persons of the full age of nineteen years and not otherwise disqualified under this Act from consuming liquor while they are passengers on aircraft operated by the licensee on commercial airline flights in the Province.
Licence to corporation operating commercial airline passenger service
99.1(6)Where the Minister issues a special facility licence under subsection (4), the Minister may authorize the licensee to purchase liquor for use in the Province elsewhere than from the Corporation in which event the provisions of section 99 apply
mutatis mutandis.
Licence to corporation operating commercial ferry boat passenger service
99.1(7)Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, upon application to the Minister and payment of the prescribed fee, the Minister may issue a special facility licence to any corporation maintaining and operating a commercial ferry boat passenger service in the Province.
Licence to corporation operating commercial ferry boat passenger service
99.1(8)A special facility licence issued under subsection (7) authorizes the licensee to purchase liquor of all kinds from the Corporation or elsewhere as may be authorized by the Minister and to sell or serve the liquor so purchased to persons of the full age of nineteen years and not otherwise disqualified under this Act from consuming liquor while they are passengers on ferry boats operated by the licensee on commercial ferry boat voyages in the Province.
Licence to corporation operating commercial ferry boat passenger service
99.1(9)Where the Minister issues a special facility licence under subsection (7), the Minister may authorize the licensee to purchase liquor for use in the Province elsewhere than from the Corporation in which event the provisions of section 99 apply
mutatis mutandis.
1989, c.20, s.44; 1992, c.90, s.61; 1994, c.100, s.3