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Dutiable Commodities Regulations

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distillery or goods other than materials for the fermentation and distillation of liquor and apparatus used in the distillery for the purpose of the fermentation and distillation of liquor.

(2) No fermenting material shall be removed from a distillery.

(3) No fermented material shall be removed from a distillery unless all alcohol contained therein has been removed therefrom by distillation.

(L.N. 7 of 1987)

58. Fermentation

(1) Except with the special permission of the Commissioner, all material put on to ferment shall be distilled immediately upon the expiration of the periods set out in the following table-

TABLE

TIME WITHIN WHICH MATERIAL IS TO BE FERMENTED

Sugar or molasses or an admixture of both 4 days

Millet 10 days

Rice 21 days

(2) Time shall commence to run-

(a) in the case of sugar or molasses or an admixture of sugar and molasses, from the first mixing of the sugar or molasses or the admixture with mother mash or other ferment approved by the Commissioner;

(b) 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 Commissioner.

(4) In the case of the manufacture of Chinese type spirits from the fermented mash of rice, the distiller shall declare to the Commissioner the type of yeast, method of fermentation and raw materials used and shall enter that method, raw materials and yeast in the record prescribed by regulation 61(1).

(5) The distiller shall report to the Commissioner any change in the type of yeast, raw materials or method of fermentation used as soon as practicable thereafter.

(L.N. 6 of 1970; L.N. 294 of 1982; L.N. 7 of 1987)