Regulation 20 Stocktaking

(1)

Save as the Commissioners otherwise allow, a producer shall, twice in every year on approved dates, take stock of all wine and made-wine at each winery in respect of which he holds a licence, and shall deliver the returns of stock to the officer within twenty-eight days of the dates approved for the stocktaking.

(2)

The return of stock required by this regulation shall, in relation to still wine, sparkling wine, still made-wine and sparkling made-wine, deal separately with liquors of a strength not exceeding 1.2 per cent., of a strength exceeding 1.2 per cent. but not exceeding 5.5 per cent., and of a strength exceeding 5.5 per cent., and shall state in respect of each of those categories of liquor the following particulars –

(a)

the name and number of every entered vessel containing such liquors and the quantity therein;

(b)

the number of casks, cases or other containers and unpacked bottles of each size, and the separate quantities of liquors contained therein;

(c)

the total quantities of such liquors in stock; and

(d)

the details of any surplus, deficiency or other discrepancy revealed by the stocktaking.