New Zealand Gazette – 1996 – No. 92

Page 2419

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27 AUGUST CUSTOMS EDITION 2419

                    CR 1G/1996

NEW ZEALAND CUSTOMS SERVICE

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACT 1996

CUSTOMS (VOLUME OF ALCOHOL) RULES 1996

PURSUANT to Section 288(1)(g) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 the Chief Executive hereby makes the rules prescribing the manner in which the volume of alcohol in an alcoholic beverage is to be ascertained.

RULES

1 Title, Commencement, Application and Purpose -

(a) These rules may be cited as the Customs (Volume of Alcohol) Rules 1996.

(b) These rules shall come into force on the 1st day of October 1996.

(c) These rules shall apply for the purposes of prescribing the manner in which the volume of alcohol in an alcoholic beverage is to be ascertained.

(d) The volume of alcohol in an alcoholic beverage shall be ascertained by multiplying the quantity of litres of the particular beverage by its alcoholic strength in accordance with these rules.

2 Interpretation

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires -

(a) The term “the Act” means the Customs and Excise Act 1996;

(b) Any terms used in these rules which are defined in Section 2 of the Act shall have the meanings given to them by that section;

(c) “Targeted strength” means the intended percentage of alcohol by volume for each product, and each brand of the product in relation to alcoholic beverages, as advised by the manufacturer in accordance with such conditions as may be specified under section 12(2) of the Act;

(d) “Weighted mean value”, in relation to beer which is accounted for in an entry for home consumption, means the percentage of alcohol by volume obtained by dividing the total quantity of litres of alcohol, as ascertained in accordance with these rules, by the total quantity of litres of beer so entered.

3 Methods to ascertain volume of alcohol in beer -

The volume of alcohol in beer may be ascertained by any one or more of the following processes:

(a) by use of a Servo Chem Automatic Beer Analyser; or

(b) by use of Headspace Gas Chromatography; or

(c) by way of distillation followed either by the gravimetric measurement of the distillate or by measurement in an oscillating U-tube type density meter.

4 Methods to ascertain volume of alcohol in alcoholic beverages other than beer -

The volume of alcohol in alcoholic beverages other than beer may be ascertained by any one or more of the following processes:

(a) by use of Headspace Gas Chromatography; or

(b) by way of distillation followed either by the gravimetric measurement of the distillate or by measurement in an oscillating U-tube type density meter; or

(c) by way of Hydrometric testing using an OIML hydrometer of the British Standard BS 5470, in the case of goods of a class or kind which, if imported, would be classified in Tariff headings 2208.20 to 2208.60.


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