Liquor Products Amendment Act 11 of 1993

Liquor Products Amendment Act, 1993 (No. 11 of 1993)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
[ ] Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments.
__Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

• to amend the Liquor Products Act, 1989,
• to provide for the appointment, as members of the Wine and Spirit Board, of two persons nominated by the Agricultural Research Council, instead of two officers;
• to sanction the production and sale of an alcoholic beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of honey; and
• to abolish the requirement that specimens of labels affixed to containers be filed with the administering officer; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented t 26 February 1993.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:- 

Amendment of section 2 of Act 60 of 1989

1. Section 2 of the Liquor Products Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended- 

(a) by the substitution for subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of the following subparagraph:

"(iv) not more than two [officers appointed] persons nominated by the Agricultural Research Council by virtue of their involvement in oenological and viticultural research; and";

(b) by the substitution for paragraph (d) of the said subsection (2) of the following paragraph: 

"(d) Whenever it becomes necessary, the Director-General shall  request the bodies mentioned in subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iv) of paragraph (a) [(i) and (ii)] in writing to submit the applicable nominations to him in· writing 'within the period specified in the request."; and 

(c) by the substitution for subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of the following subparagraph: 

"(iv) if, in the case of a member or an alternate member nominated by a body specified in subsection (2)(a)(i), [or] (ii) or (iv), the body concerned notifies the Director-General in writing that such member or alternate member shall no longer serve on the board as nominee of that body.".

Amendment of section 10 of Act 60 of 1989

2. Section 10 of the principal Act is hereby amended-

(a) by the substitution for paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of the following paragraphs: 

"(a) may sell, or produce for sale, for drinking purposes, a sacramental beverage specified in such notice [for drinking purpose; or];

(b) may sell, or produce for sale, for drinking purposes, an alcoholic beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of the juice of oranges together with cane sugar [for drinking purposes] or;";

(b) by the addition to the said subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(c) may sell, or produce for sale, for drinking purposes, an alcoholic beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of honey."; and

(c) by the substitution for the· words preceding subparagraph (i) in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of the following words:

"shall, in the case of an alcoholic beverage referred to in subsection (1)(b) or (c) be granted only if-".

Repeal of section 13 of Act 60 of 1989

3. Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

Amendment of section 23 of Act 60 of 1989

4. Section 23 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(b) contravenes or fails to comply with a provision of section 5(3)(b), 6(3)(b), 7(3)(b), 8(3)(b), 9(3)(b) [13(1), 13(1) as applied by 13(4)] or 20(4);".

Short title

5. This Act shall be called the Liquor Products Amendment Act, 1993.

Commencement

10 March 1993