Spirits Act, 1880

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Penalty for excess of wort or wash on comparison of accounts.

30. If after an officer has taken an account of the gravity or quantity of the wort or wash in a fermenting back any wort or wash is found in the back which exceeds in gravity, or exceeds by five per centum in quantity, the wort or wash of which the account has been taken, the following consequences shall ensue:

(a.) All wort or wash found in the back shall be considered as new, and as not included in any former charge against the distiller; and

(b.) The distiller shall be charged with duty in respect of the whole thereof as not being before charged; and

(c.) The wort or wash of which account had previously been taken shall be deemed to be distilled or decreased, and the distiller shall be charged for a quantity of spirits in respect thereof as for wort or wash actually distilled or decreased; and

(d.) The distiller shall incur a fine of two hundred pounds.