The Beer, Cider and Perry, Spirits, and Wine and Made-wine (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Spirits

5.—(1) Amend the Spirits Regulations 1991(1) as follows.

(2) Omit regulations 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26(4) and Schedule 2.

(3) Throughout the regulations, for “officer” substitute “Commissioners”.

(4) In regulation 3—

(i) omit the definitions of “approved saccharometer”, “document”, “hydrometer”, “officer”, “records”, “sugar”, and “thermometer”,

(ii) in the definition of “approved”, omit all after the word “Commissioners”, and

(iii) in the definition of “plant”, for “all vessels, utensils, pipes, fittings, and other equipment” substitute “the vessels”.

(5) In paragraph (1) of regulation 4, for “written application” substitute “application in writing or by means of an electronic communication”.

(6) In paragraph (2) of regulation 4, for “drawing, model or description distinctly showing the course, construction and use of all” substitute “description of”.

(7) In paragraph (1) of regulation 6, after “not” insert “significantly”.

(8) In paragraph (1) of regulation 10, omit all after the word “spirits”.

(9) At the end of paragraph (1) of regulation 18, add—

“or

(c) by a method set out in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2870/2000(2).”

(10) In paragraph (1) of regulation 26, omit all after the word “require”.

(11) In paragraph (2) of regulation 26, omit all after the word “immediately”.

(12) In paragraph (3) of regulation 26, for “declared in the entry book (or other records approved under regulation 21 above)” substitute “taken”.

(13) In paragraph (5) of regulation 26, omit all after the word “receiver” (where it occurs for the second time).

(1)

S.I. 1991/2564, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

OJ No. L333, 29/12/2000, p.20.