The Spirits (Amendment) Regulations 2013

• Citation: S.I. 2013/1229
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and Commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Spirits (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st July 2013.

Section 2 Revocation of the Spirits (Rectifying, Compounding and Drawback) Regulations 1988

The Spirits (Rectifying, Compounding and Drawback) Regulations 1988 are revoked.

Section 3 Amendments to the Spirits Regulations 1991

(1) The Spirits Regulations 1991 are amended as follows.

(2) Omit regulation 2.

(3) In regulation 3—

(a) omit “, unless the context otherwise requires”;

(b) omit the definitions of—

(i) “the Act”;

(ii) “approved”;

(iii) “distiller”;

(iv) “distiller’s warehouse”;

(v) “distillery”;

(vi) “feints”;

(vii) “low wines”;

(viii) “still”;

(ix) “wort”; and

(x) “wash”.

(c) in the definition of “plant”, insert “, rectifying or compounding” after “manufacture” wherever that word occurs.

(4) After regulation 6, add—

Rectifiers and compounders: entry of premises and plant

(7)

(1) No person shall make use, for rectifying or compounding spirits, of any premises or plant unless they have first made entry of that premises or plant.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of operations carried out in a warehouse or to persons authorised in accordance with section 8(1) or 10(1) of the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979.

(5) In regulation 18(1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), for “the table entitled “The Practical Alcohol Tables Volume 2”” substitute “Volume 2 of the Practical Alcohol Tables”; and

(b) in paragraph (b), omit “table entitled” and the inverted commas around “Laboratory Alcohol Table”.

(6) In regulation 19(2), omit “table entitled” and the inverted commas around “Contents by Weight Table”.

(7) In regulation 26, omit “approved as” wherever it occurs.

Section 4 Amendments to the Duty Stamps Regulations 2006

(1) The Duty Stamps Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulations 19(1)(e)(i) and 31, after “regulation 4 of the Spirits (Rectifying, Compounding and Drawback) Regulations 1988”, insert “or regulation 7 of the Spirits Regulations 1991”.

Section 5 Amendments to the Beer, Cider and Perry, Spirits and Wine and Made-wine (Amendment) Regulations 2006

(1) The Beer, Cider and Perry, Spirits and Wine and Made-wine (Amendment) Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.

(2) Omit regulation 6.