# The Wine and Made-wine Regulations 1989, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1356/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wine-and-made-wine-regulations-1989/regulation-20
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