(Sections 10 and 13)
1. The following vessels must be erected to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of Excise before a still is licensed, and must be maintained to the same satisfaction during the continuance of the licence—
one low-wines receiver
one spirit receiver
one spent lees tank
one storage tank.
The distiller may provide as many additional receivers for low-wines and for spirits and as many additional store tanks as he or she may think fit.
2. Every spirit receiver must be capable of containing the quantity adjudged by the Comptroller of Excise at the time of the construction of such receiver to be the average quantity of spirits produced from 6 days' distillation at the distillery where the receiver is erected.
3. Every still and retort and every man-hole, vapour pipe, worm and discharge pipe thereof, and every opening thereout and thereinto, must be constructed, secured and maintained to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of Excise.
4. Every cock, valve and pump kept or used by the distiller must be constructed in an approved manner and must be secured and maintained to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of Excise.
5. If the Comptroller of Excise so direct, any cock or valve must be provided with an approved fastening, for securing such cock or valve by lock.
6. A still and its worm may have an approved air valve.
7. The retort or retorts (if any) must be fitted with a close metal pipe through which the spent-lees may be discharged to the spent-lees tank.
8. The end of the worm must be enclosed and secured in an approved safe in an approved manner.
9. If required by the Comptroller of Excise, any safe is to be fitted with an approved overflow pipe leading to a low-wines receiver.
10. Every low-wines receiver must be connected with the safe by an approved close metal pipe attached to and leading directly from the safe in such manner that all low-wines running from the safe into the pipe shall immediately be discharged into the receiver, and must have fixed in or connected with it an approved pump or discharge cock for the conveyance of low-wines to the retorts or spent-lees tank.
11. Every spirit receiver must be connected with the safe by an approved close metal pipe, of approved bore, attached to and leading directly from the safe in such manner that all spirits running from the safe into the pipe shall immediately be discharged into the receiver, and must have fixed in or connected with it an approved pump or discharge cock for conveying the spirits through one close metal pipe into the storage tank.
12. If required by the Comptroller of Excise, the pipe, other than an overflow pipe, leading from the safe to the low-wines receiver and the pipe leading from the safe to the spirit receiver must each have fitted therein a cock with approved fastening.
13. Every pipe used for the conveyance of low-wines or spirits must be so placed and fixed as to be capable of being examined for the whole of its length.
14. Every spirit receiver, low-wines receiver, spent-lees tank and storage tank must be a close covered vessel constructed and secured with fastenings to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of Excise.
15. Every receiver and storage tank must have in its cover a dipping-hole of approved form and size; if the Comptroller of Excise so direct, there must be 2 or more such dipping-holes.
16. If so directed by the Comptroller of Excise, there must be fixed to any dipping-hole in an approved manner a dipping-rod supplied by the Government.
17. Each dipping-hole not so provided with a dipping-rod must be secured and kept secured to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of Excise.
18. Every still, vessel, utensil, pipe, fitting or other appliance required to be constructed or secured to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of Excise must be maintained and kept secured to the like satisfaction while a licence is in force in respect of the distillery whereat the same is situate.
1. A receiver or storage tank must not be filled to a greater depth, as ascertained at the dipping-hole or by the fixed dipping-rod, than that fixed by the Comptroller of Excise in respect thereof.
2. No alteration may be made in the level or dipping-hole of any receiver or vessel unless after notice under section 16.
3. All wash must be fermented in the fermenting vessels and thence conveyed direct into the still for distillation.
4. All low-wines and spirits running from the worm of the still must run thence direct into the safe.
5. All low-wines must be conveyed direct from the safe into the receiver and thence direct into the retorts or still for redistillation.
6. All spirits must be conveyed direct from the safe into the spirit receiver.
7. Save as provided for in section 27, no spirits conveyed into the spirit receiver may be redistilled.
8. Save as provided for in sections 15 and 20, all spirits in the spirit receiver must, after the proper officer has taken an account of their quantity and strength, be conveyed through a close metal pipe into the storage tank.
9. Except after notice to and in the presence of the proper officer, access may not be had to the end of the worm of any still or to the interior of any safe or to any low-wines or spirits in any pipe, retort, receiver, storage tank or warehouse.