Bill 184 explained in plain English
Liquor Licence Amendment Act (Maple Wine and Mead), 2017
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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This bill amends the Liquor Licence Act to establish conditions for manufacturers selling maple wine and mead at farmers' markets.
This bill, known as the Liquor Licence Amendment Act (Maple Wine and Mead), 2017, makes changes to the Liquor Licence Act in Ontario. It introduces specific conditions for manufacturers who have a licence to sell maple wine or mead at a farmers' market. These conditions include following the Registrar's authorizations, ensuring the local municipality does not object, providing advance notice of sales locations and dates, returning unsold product within 24 hours, conducting sampling according to guidelines, and ensuring staff have completed approved server training.
- Adds a new section to the Liquor Licence Act to define conditions for selling maple wine and mead at farmers' markets.
- Specifies definitions for 'farmers' market', 'maple wine', 'mead', and 'production site'.
- Sets conditions for manufacturers holding a licence to sell maple wine or mead at an occasional extension of their winery retail store located within a farmers' market.
- Amends subsection 62 (1) of the Act to allow for the definition of 'maple wine' or 'mead' for the purpose of the new section.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Manufacturers holding a liquor manufacturer's licence in Ontario.
- The Registrar (of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario).
- Municipalities.
- Consumers attending farmers' markets.
- Manufacturers must comply with Registrar's authorizations regarding sales at farmers' markets.
- Manufacturers must ensure the local municipality does not object to sales.
- Manufacturers must provide advance notice of sales locations and dates.
- Manufacturers must return unsold maple wine or mead to their store within 24 hours.
- Manufacturers must conduct sampling according to AGCO guidelines.
- Manufacturers must ensure staff selling or sampling have completed approved server training.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The specific definitions for 'maple wine' and 'mead' are to be set out in regulations, which are not provided in this bill text.
- The bill does not detail what happens if a municipality objects to the sale.
- The bill does not specify penalties for non-compliance with the new conditions.
Introduces a new section (22.1) that sets conditions for manufacturers selling maple wine and mead at farmers' markets. It also amends subsection 62(1) to allow for definitions of 'maple wine' and 'mead' for the purpose of this new section.
Source: Section 1 and Section 2
Mentions clause 3(1)(e) of this Act in relation to the Registrar authorizing the sale of maple wine or mead at an occasional extension of a winery retail store.
Source: Section 22.1 (2)
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