B.C. Reg. 78/2024, deposited April 5, 2024, under the LIQUOR CONTROL AND LICENSING ACT [section 82]. Order in Council 166/2024, approved and ordered April 5, 2024.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Liquor Control and Licensing Regulation, B.C. Reg. 241/2016, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— M. FARNWORTH, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Deputy Premier; P. ALEXIS, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

1 Section 34 of the Liquor Control and Licensing Regulation, B.C. Reg. 241/2016, is repealed and the following substituted:

Picnic area endorsements

34 (1) In this section:

"picnic area hours" means the period beginning no earlier than 9 a.m. and ending no later than one half hour after sunset, unless the general manager specifies a shorter period in a picnic area endorsement;

"picnic consumption area" means a service area under a picnic area endorsement that

(a) is specified in the picnic area endorsement as a picnic consumption area, and

(b) meets the requirements under subsection (4);

"picnic sale area" means a service area under a picnic area endorsement that

(a) is specified in the picnic area endorsement as a picnic sale area, and

(b) meets the requirements under subsection (4).

(2) A manufacturer licence endorsed with a picnic area endorsement authorizes the licensee, during the hours specified in the terms and conditions of the licence, to sell and serve to patrons in a picnic sale area drinks containing liquor manufactured under the licence.

(3) A manufacturer licence endorsed with a picnic area endorsement authorizes a patron to consume the following liquor in a picnic consumption area or picnic sale area during picnic area hours:

(a) liquor that the licensee who holds the manufacturer licence sells or serves to the patron under the licence;

(b) liquor that a licensee who holds a liquor primary or food primary licence sells or serves to a patron in a service area under the liquor primary or food primary licence, if

(i) the service area under the liquor primary or food primary licence is adjacent to the manufacturing facilities of the establishment under the manufacturer licence, and

(ii) the licensee who holds the manufacturer licence is the same person who holds the liquor primary or food primary licence.

(4) A picnic consumption area and a picnic sale area must

(a) be outdoors in a location approved by the general manager,

(b) have boundaries that are marked so that patrons can easily identify those boundaries, and

(c) be of a size and configuration approved by the general manager, subject to subsection (5).

(5) The combined size of any picnic sale area and any picnic consumption areas under a manufacturer licence endorsed with a picnic area endorsement must not exceed 1 000 square metres.

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