Excise Act, 2001

Marginal note:Prohibition — possession

• 70 (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;

  • (c.1) in the case of bulk spirits produced for the purpose or as a consequence of the analysis of the composition of a substance containing absolute ethyl alcohol, to a person who, having produced those spirits, possesses them during the period of analysis;

  • (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.