Spirits Act, 1880

Racking duty paid spirits.

65. (1.) The Commissioners may require a distiller or a proprietor or occupier of an Excise warehouse to provide a separate room, secured to their satisfaction for racking spirits on which duty has been paid.

(2.) The officer in charge of the warehouse shall keep an account of all spirits computed at proof belonging to a proprietor of spirits which shall be received into the room and lawfully sent out therefrom.

(3.) If at any time a greater quantity of spirits is found in the room than ought, according to the account, to be there, the excess shall be charged with duty.

(4.) If the excess amounts to more than one per centum of the quantity of spirits brought in since the last preceding account, it shall be forfeited, and the proprietor of the spirits shall incur a fine of twenty shillings for every gallon of the excess.