THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1940.
REGULATIONS,—contd.
C.--DISTILLERIES,-contd.
Schedule.
Time within which material is
to be fermented.
Part VII,- contd.
Rice.
Season.
Molasses. Using square cake
Using
yeast or baker's yeast.
ball
yeast.
April 15th to October 31st
72 hours
18 days
7 days
November 1st to April 14th
96 hours
21 days
10 days
The time shall commence to run-
(a) in the case of molasses, from the first mixing of molasses with rice tailings or other ferment; and
(b) in the case of rice, from noon on the day on which the steamed rice is mixed with yeast.
(2) No methods of accelerating fermentation shall be employed without the previous consent of the Superintendent.
(3) In the case of rice, the distiller shall declare to the Superintendent the type of yeast and the method of fermenta- tion he intends to employ, and shall enter that type of yeast and that method in the record prescribed by regulation 70 (1).
(4) The distiller shall forthwith report to the Super- intendent any change in the type of yeast or method of fermentation used.
be reduced
68. Before an account is taken by a revenue officer Liquor to of any liquor in a distillery, the liquor shall, if the Super- to uniform intendent so directs, be reduced to a uniform strength pre- strength
and spirit scribed by him as a strength at which liquor of that type is by receivers trade usage commonly produced or sold: at or immediately emptied, after the taking of such account spirit receivers shall be emptied.
when account is taken.
and denatur-
69. After duty is assessed on any liquor or any liquor Duty-paid is denatured in a spirit store, the duty-paid liquor or the ed spirit to denatured spirit. as the case may be, shall forthwith be be removed removed from the spirit store and from the distillery.
distillery.
from
be kept by
70.—(1) In addition to any record which he is required Records to to keep under any regulations relating to the storage of distiller. diniable grunds or to labels, every distiller shall. whenever any materials for the distillation of liquor are taken into or out of a distillery or are used or dealt with in any manner whatever therein, forthwith make due entry thereof in a book which shall be kept in the distillery in a form
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