The Denatured Alcohol Regulations 2005

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Denatured Alcohol Regulations 2005 and come into force on 1st July 2005.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979;

“alcohol”, except in regulation 10(3), means “dutiable alcoholic liquor”;

“completely denatured alcohol” has the meaning given in regulation 4;

“formulation” means the recipe or list of substances and liquids, including any proportions, quantities, standards, or other criteria relating to those substances and liquids, that a producer is to use and follow when making the class of denatured alcohol or a batch of it to which the formulation relates;

“industrial denatured alcohol” has the meaning given in regulation 4;

“producer” means—

(a)

a person who is a distiller, rectifier or compounder, and who is authorized by the Commissioners under section 75 of the Act to denature alcohol; or

(b)

a person who holds an excise licence granted under that section, and who denatures or intends to denature alcohol at any premises;

“trade specific denatured alcohol” has the meaning given in regulation 4.

Revocation

3.  The Iso-Propyl Alcohol Regulations 1927(1) and the Methylated Spirits Regulations 1987(2) are revoked.

(1)

S.R. & O. 1927/783.

(2)

S.I. 1987/2009.