Spirits Act, 1880

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Offences with respect to warehousing.

84. If a distiller, or proprietor of spirits, or proprietor or occupier of an Excise warehouse, by himself, or by any person in his employ or with his connivance, commits any of the following offences; (that is to say,)

(a.) Opens any of the locks or doors of a warehouse, or makes or obtains access into an Excise warehouse, except in the presence of an officer acting in his duty as such; or

(b.) After the approval of a warehouse, makes any alteration therein or addition thereto without the previous consent of the Commissioners; or

(c.) Warehouses spirits in, or removes spirits from, a warehouse otherwise than is provided by this Act; or

(d.) By any contrivance or device privately removes or conceals any spirits either before or after they are warehoused,

he shall incur a fine of two hundred pounds; and all spirits warehoused, removed, or concealed in contravention of this section shall be forfeited.