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LIQUOR PRODUCTS AMENDMENT ACT IN FORCE
- 01 August 2023
- New Legislation
- SA Legal Academy
Please note: The presidential proclamation announcing the Act’s commencement was replaced shortly afterwards with an identical notice simply issued by a different national government department.
The Liquor Products Amendment Act, 2021 came into effect on 1 August 2023 by presidential proclamation in the Government Gazette.
Among other things, it closes a loophole in the principal statute allowing any liquor product labelled as beer or ale to be manufactured and sold. This is expected to curb ‘the proliferation and uncontrolled sale of sugar-fermented beverages and other concoctions’ – at least according to a memorandum on the objects of the Bill concerned, which Parliament passed in June 2021.
The new piece of legislation also:
- makes it mandatory for bottlers and the fillers of other liquor containers to register with the relevant authority
- allows the Minister to make regulations on packaging and container standards
- brings products with an alcohol content of between 0.5 and 1.0% vol withing the scope of the principal statute
- allows the use of reconstituted juice in acholic fruit beverage production
- removes barriers encountered by new entrants to the specially authorised liquor market
- specifies the requirements to be met by the producers of beer, traditional African beer and other fermented beverages
- limits the advisory function of the Board to liquor products derived from grapes, and
- renames the Board as the Wine Certification Authority.
In anticipation of the amendment Act’s commencement, regulatory amendments in force since July 2022 were repealed on 31 July 2023 by notice in the Government Gazette.
- Act
- presidential proclamation
- notice repealing July 2022 regulations
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch