Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 73

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1952.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Spirits Act 1906-1952.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of March, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

 

Amendments of the Spirits Regulations

1. Regulation 9a of the Spirits Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “tequila”, the words “, ferro china, ramazzotti bitters”.

2. Regulation 9b of the Spirits Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “masticha” the words “, ferro china, ramazzotti bitters, cynar”.

3. Regulation 51 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“51.—(1.) Spirits may be methylated only by authority, only in a Customs Warehouse, the Spirit Store of a Spirit Maker’s Distillery or the premises specified in the methylator’s licence or at any other place approved by the Collector and, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, under the supervision of an officer.

“(2.) Where—

(a) the Collector is satisfied that a methylator keeps records that show—

(i) details of the receipt and disposal of all materials capable of being used in methylation;

(ii) details of all materials used in methylation; and

(iii) details of all methylated spirits produced, stored, or disposed of, by him; and

(b) the methods adopted, and the precautions taken, by the methylator in and after carrying out methylation are, in the opinion of the Collector, such as to render the carrying out

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 31 March, 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 202, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 28, 51 and 154; 1928, Nos. 14 and 106; 1929, No. 98; 1930, No. 35; 1932, No. 60; 1935, No. 68; 1936, No. 60; 1939, Nos. 8 and 171; 1940, No. 248; 1953, No. 16; 1954, No. 110; 1958, No. 56; 1959, No. 18; and 1960, No. 61.

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of the operation under the supervision of an officer unnecessary,

the Collector may, by writing under his hand exempt the methylator from compliance with the requirement of the last preceding sub-regulation that spirits may only be methylated under the supervision of an officer, and, while the exemption remains in force, the methylator is not required to comply with the requirements of that provision.

“(3.) A methylator to whom an exemption has been granted under the last preceding sub-regulation shall furnish to the Collector, at such times as the Collector requires in a form approved by the Collector, such returns relating to the details referred to in paragraph (a) of that sub-regulation as the Collector directs.”.

4. The Schedule to the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting from Form 6 the words—

“I certify that I have this day supervised the making of the above Methylated Spirits, and that the methylation has been effectually performed.

Officer.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra