LIQUOR PRODUCTS ACT REGULATIONS: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT AMENDMENTS

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development has gazetted a notice calling for input by 17 March 2024 on draft amendments to regulations under the Liquor Products Act, 1989.

Posted on the old departmental website, the amendments now being proposed:

  • may well be intended to align the regulations with the Liquor Products Amendment Act, 2021, which came into force in August 2023, and
  • with that possibly in mind, among other things have implications for:
    • traditional beer
    • alcoholic fruit beverages
    • ‘sacramental alcoholic beverages’
    • alcoholic fermentation processes of various types
    • beverage class designation
    • labelling (including the ‘drinking message’ and product contents), and
  • the containers in which certain ingredients are sold.

It is envisaged that the penalty for non-compliance would be ‘a fine not exceeding R10 000’, ‘imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months - or both.

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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