3rd Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 5

THE LIQUOR, GAMING AND CANNABIS CONTROL AMENDMENT ACT (CANNABIS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FEE)

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. L153 amended

1

The Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Control Act is amended by this Act.

2

The following is added after subsection 101.3(2):

Agreement must include a social responsibility fee

101.3(3)

It is a term of every agreement under this section that the person with whom the agreement is entered into must pay to the government, at the time and in the manner specified in the agreement, a social responsibility fee in respect of the person's sales of cannabis in 2020 and in each year after that.

Amount of fee

101.3(4)

The amount of the social responsibility fee is

(a) the prescribed amount; or

(b) if no amount is prescribed, 6% of the person's annual gross revenue received or receivable in the year from their Manitoba sales of cannabis.

3

The following is added after clause 157(1)(i):

(j) for the purpose of section 101.3, prescribing the amount of the social responsibility fee or the manner of determining the amount of the fee.

Coming into force

4

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.