BREWERY REGULATIONS – SECTION 11
Commencement [30 April 1976]
1. Citation
These Regulations may be cited as the Brewery Regulations.
2. Interpretation
In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—
“Comptroller” means the Comptroller of Customs and Excise;
“officer” means officer of Customs and Excise;
“schedule” means the Schedule to these Regulations.
3. Prescribed form of Entry for premises to be used as Brewery
The Entry for premises under section 18 of the Brewery Act shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule.
4. Security for Duty
The brewer shall, if the Comptroller so requires, give security in such manner and in such amount as he or she directs for the payment of any duty for which he or she is or may become accountable.
5. Warehousing
A brewer shall enter for warehousing and deposit in an approved beer warehouse all beer ready for sale and shall keep records available for official inspection at all reasonable times showing the quantity of beer deposited therein and delivered therefrom on each day and if the beer is contained in bottles or similar receptacles, the number and capacity of such bottles or receptacles and the number of cases in which they are packed.
6. Delivery of Beer from Warehouse
A brewer shall not deliver any beer from the brewery except from the approved beer warehouse and no beer shall be so delivered except with the authority of an officer and after the duty chargeable thereon has been paid or has been otherwise properly accounted for.
7. Securing of Warehouse
The beer warehouse shall, when not required to be open for the receipt or delivery of beer and malt, be properly secured and the brewer shall not seek access to the warehouse except on such days and during such hours as shall be approved by the Comptroller.
8. Delivery or Consignment Notes
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(1) Unless the Comptroller permits the Brewer's normal commercial invoice, delivery note or similar document to the consignee to be used, every consignment of goods delivered from his or her premises shall be accompanied by a properly completed consignment note in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule.
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However, the Comptroller may on written application by the brewer permit the aforesaid documents or consignment notes to be used for a series of deliveries not exceeding a period in time of one day.
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(2) A duplicate of every such document or consignment note as aforesaid shall be retained upon the premises of the brewer and made available for the official inspection of the proper officer.
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(3) A person shall not receive any beer required to be accompanied by a document or consignment note as aforesaid without such a document or consignment note and shall keep such document or consignment note for a period of one year from the date of receipt thereof and shall produce such document or consignment note to an officer on demand.
9. Periodic Returns
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(1) Every brewer shall for each calendar month furnish the Comptroller with a return in the form numbered 4 in the Schedule showing the receipts, usings, and stock balances of all materials used in the brewing of beer or preparation of solution and also the quantities of worts collected during the month.
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(2) The brewer shall also, for each calendar month, submit a return in the form numbered 5 in the Schedule showing the quantities of beer bottled, deposited in the beer warehouse and delivered thereform.
10. Examination of goods entered for exportation
Goods entered for exportation shall be examined in the bonded area from which they are to be removed for exportation but the Comptroller may permit examinations to be carried out in such places and under such conditions as he or she may in any special circumstances deem suitable and necessary.
11. Notice to pack for export
Where goods are to be examined at a bonded area, a notice to pack for export, in duplicate, according to Form 6 in the Schedule be forwarded in time to reach the proper officer at least 24 hours before the time of commencement of packing. After packing the exporter shall complete the necessary shipping documents, which must be produced with the goods at the time of shipment.
12. Internal examination and sampling
Despite the provisions of the preceding paragraphs, the Comptroller shall retain the right of internal examination and sampling a ship's side.
13. Security
The exporter shall, if the Comptroller so desires, give security in such manner and in such amount as he or she directs to cover the due exportation of the goods.
14. Adaptation of Forms
The Comptroller may vary in such manner as he or she thinks fit any of the forms in the schedule, or may permit any such form to be adapted to meet the circumstances of any particular case, and any reference in these Regulations to any such form shall be deemed to include a reference to such form varied or adapted under this regulation.
15. Mode of ascertaining original gravity
When fermentation has commenced in words so that the original gravity cannot be ascertained by the approved sacharometer, such gravity may be determined in the following manner—
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(a) a sample is to be taken from any part of such worts and, after first being cleared from sediment by filtration, a definite quantity by measure at the temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit shall be distilled;
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(b) The distillate and residue shall each be made up at the temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit with distilled water to the original measure of the quantity before distillation, and the gravity of each shall be ascertained;
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(c) the manner of degrees by which the gravity of the distillate is less than the gravity of distilled water shall be deemed the spirit indication of the distillate;
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(d) the degrees of gravity standing opposite to such spirit indication in the table in the schedule to these Regulations, added to the gravity of the residue expressed in degrees, shall be deemed to be the original gravity of the worts.