Locks Bod scals.
Spirit stare
to be deemed
a licensed
warehouse.
Containers.
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locked receiver and then into a spirit store, but in either case so that no access can be had to the spirit except by a member of the Preventive Service, the spirit receiver shall have no outlet except through a cock fitted with a lock affixed and sealed by a member of the Preventive Services
(f) no alterations or repairs, and no change in the use to which any part of the premises is put, shall be made without the consent of the Director.
$3. The Director my cause sealed locks to be affixed to any spirit store and spirit receiver,
54. Without prejudice to this Part, every spirit store shall be deemed to be a licensed warehouse for the purpose of any regulations relating to the storage of dutiable goods, except that-
(a) no separate licence shall be necessary for the store; (b) on the outside of the store, instead of the words "LICENSED WAREHOUSE", there shall be legibly and permanently marked in English and Chinese the words “SPIRIT STORE", (c) no liquor shall be removed from a spirit store except under and
in accordance with a prescribed permit:
(d) no permit shall be necessary for the removal of liquor from one
spirit store to another in the same distillery;
(e) without the express permission of the Director no liquor sball be taken into a spirit store in any distillery except liquor distilled in that distillery.
55. (1) All containers and utensils for distillation and storage of liquor shall be kept clean to the satisfaction of the Director.
(2) All containers of Chinese type spirits despatched from any distillery shall have legibly painted thereon in Chinese characters the word "a" (tsau) and the name of the distillery.
(3) Every container for fermenting mash shall be of a size approved by the Director and shall have the normal charge, and a serial number plainly and permanently marked thereon in English and Chinese: no such container shall be filled with material for fermentation weighing more or less than the normal charge.
(4) Every container used for storing spirit in a spirit store shall be of a size approved by the Director and shall have the maximum capacity in gallons and a serial number plainly marked thereon in English and Chinese. It shall be fitted or provided with an accurate gauge showing the quantity of spirit in the container.
(5) Every container in a spirin store shall be kept securely covered so as to prevent evaporation.
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56. No person shall, unless accompanied by a member of the Unauthorized Preventive Service employed in a spirit store, enter or be in any spirit person
prohibited STCH.
in spirit store.
57, (1) Except with the permission of the Director, no liquor, and Restrictions nothing but materials for the distillation of liquor, shall be taken into a liquor a distillery.
and materials entering and leaving
(2) No fermented material shall be removed from a distillery, distilleries. until all the alcohol therein has been removed therefrom by distillation.
tino,
58. (1) Except with the special permission of the Director, all Fermenta- material put on to ferment shall be distilled as soon as fermentation is complete, but in any event within the times set out in the following able-
TABLE.
Time within which material is to be fermented.
Rice.
Season.
Molasses,
Millet.
Using square cake yeast or baker's yeast.
Using ball yeast
April 15th to October 31st
72 hours
10 days
18 days
7 days
November 1st
to April 14th
96 hours
10 days
21 days
LO days
(2) Time shall commence to run-
(a) in the case of molasses, from the first mixing of molasses with
rice tailings or other ferment;
(0) in the case of rice, from noon on the day on which the
steamed rice is mixed with yeast; and
(c) in the case of millet, from the first mixing of millet with yeast
cake,
(3) No methods of accelerating fermentation shall be employed without the prior consent of the Director.
(4) In the case of rice, the distiller shall declare to the Director
the type of yeast and the methods of fermentation he intends to employ, and shall enter that type of yeast and that method in the record prescribed by paragraph (1) of regulation 61.
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