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Excise Act, 2001

Version of section 70 from 2003-01-01 to 2007-06-21:


Marginal note:Prohibition — possession

  •  (1) No person shall possess bulk alcohol.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2) Subsection (1) does not apply

    • (a) to a spirits licensee or a licensed user who possesses bulk spirits that were produced or imported by a spirits licensee;

    • (b) to a wine licensee or a licensed user who possesses bulk wine that was produced or imported by a wine licensee;

    • (c) to a licensed user who possesses bulk alcohol that was imported by the licensed user;

    • (d) to an alcohol registrant who possesses, for the purposes of storage or transportation, bulk alcohol that was produced by an alcohol licensee or imported by an alcohol licensee or licensed user;

    • (e) to a sufferance warehouse licensee who possesses in their sufferance warehouse bulk alcohol that was imported by a person permitted to do so under this Act;

    • (f) to a ferment-on-premises registrant who possesses bulk wine that was produced at the registrant’s ferment-on-premises facility by an individual for the individual’s personal use; or

    • (g) to an individual who possesses less than 500 L of bulk wine that was lawfully produced at a residence or a ferment-on-premises facility for an individual’s personal use.


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