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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wine-and-made-wine-regulations-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wine-and-made-wine-regulations-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1356",
  "legislation_title": "The Wine and Made-wine Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wine-and-made-wine-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\n1 These Regulations, applying to wine and made-wine produced in the United Kingdom for sale, come into force on 1st September 1989. They revoke and replace, with some amendments and rearrangement, the Wine and Made-wine Regulations 1979.\n2 The principal changes introduced by the Regulations are:—\n(a) a requirement is included for a licensed producer to notify the Commissioners of intention to stop production, or of discontinuance of trade;\n(b) provision is made for the Commissioners to cancel a producer’s licence for reasonable cause;\n(c) provision is made for duty to be remitted on wine or made-wine sent out of a winery at a strength not exceeding 1.2 per cent.;\n(d) provision is made for wine or made-wine to be sent out without payment of duty for such additional purposes (except home use) as the Commissioners may allow;\n(e) wine or made-wine for the production of which a licence is not required, or cider, may not be produced in a winery save as the Commissioners allow;\n(f) the regulations on stocktaking and accounts provide for the recording of separate particulars for products of a strength not exceeding 1.2 per cent., exceeding 1.2 per cent. but not exceeding 5.5 per cent., and exceeding 5.5 per cent.;\n(g) when the fifteenth day of an accounting period is not a business day, the periodic return and duty payment are to be made not later than the preceding business day;\n(h) the provisions for relief of duty on spoilt wine or made-wine have been revised to clarify the scope of the relief; and\n(j) the restriction on the proportions of mixing wine with made-wine is removed, and segregation of wine from made-wine in storage is no longer required.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1356/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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