Regulation 2 Beer

Amend the Beer Regulations 1993^f1 as follows.

Omit paragraph (3) of regulation 14.

At the end of paragraph (4) of regulation 22, add “unless the resulting mixture is charged with the rate of duty specified in section 36(1AA)(a) of the Act”.

Omit paragraph (2A) of regulation 23.

Make regulation 24 paragraph (3) of that regulation, and before it add—

“(1)

Without prejudice to paragraph (3), after small brewery beer has left the brewery where its production began water must not be added to it before the duty point.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not prohibit any operation that is reasonably necessary to make small brewery beer fit for packaging in a package that is not a large pack.”