<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Bill bill-origin="commons" bill-type="private-public" xml:lang="en" date-time="2022-03-07 15:53:50"><Identification><BillNumber>C-267</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>1</Session><Number>44</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>70-71</Year-s><Monarch>Elizabeth II</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2021-2022</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle>An Act to amend the Excise Act (non-alcoholic beer)
</LongTitle><ShortTitle status="unofficial" /><RunningHead>An Act to amend the Excise Act (non-alcoholic beer)
</RunningHead><BillHistory><Stages stage="first-reading-house"><Date><YYYY>2022</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>31</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><BillSponsor><Emphasis style="smallcaps">Mr. Cannings</Emphasis></BillSponsor><BillRefNumber date-time="2022-03-07">441084</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction><Summary><TitleText>SUMMARY</TitleText><Provision><Text>This enactment amends the <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Excise Act</XRefExternal> in order to abolish duties of excise on beer or malt liquor containing not more than 0.5% absolute ethyl alcohol by volume. </Text></Provision></Summary><Enacts><Provision><Text>Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent <Keep>of the</Keep> Senate and House of Commons of Canada, <Keep>enacts</Keep> as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body><Heading level="1"><MarginalNote><HistoricalNote>R.S., c. E-14</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Excise Act </TitleText></Heading><Section type="amending"><Label>1</Label><Subsection><Label>(1)</Label><Text>The portion of section 3 in Part II of the schedule to the <XRefExternal reference-type="act">Excise Act</XRefExternal> before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following: </Text><AmendedText><Section><Label>3</Label><Text>Per hectolitre of beer or malt liquor containing <Ins>more than 0.5% absolute ethyl alcohol by volume but</Ins> not more than 1.2% absolute ethyl alcohol by volume,</Text></Section></AmendedText></Subsection><Subsection type="amending"><Label>(2)</Label><Text>Part II of the schedule to the Act is amended by adding the following after section 3:</Text><AmendedText><Section change="ins"><Label>4</Label><Text>Per hectolitre of beer or malt liquor containing not more than 0.5% absolute ethyl alcohol by volume, $0.</Text></Section></AmendedText></Subsection></Section></Body></Bill>