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determine that the rendering of any service in terms of such scheme may be refused to a person
who is indebted to the board in any amount in respect of fees, levies or charges referred to in
paragraph (p);
determine that any person who refuses or fails to comply with any provision of such scheme or a
condition determined thereunder, may be fully or partially excluded by the board from further
participation in such scheme;
provide generally for any other matter which, subject to the provisions of this Act, in the opinion
of the Minister is necessary or expedient in order to further or better achieve the objects of such
scheme, the generality of the power conferred by this paragraph not being limited by the
preceding paragraphs of this subsection.
(2)
(a)
The definition of a particular area or piece of land under a particular name in terms of
section 22 of the Wine, Other Fermented Beverages and Spirits Act, 1957 (Act No. 25 of 1957), and
which is in force immediately prior to the repeal of that section, shall remain in force, and shall, if it is
in force immediately prior to the establishment of a scheme for wine, when such a scheme for wine is
established, be deemed to be the definition of that area or piece of land by virtue of provision included
in such scheme in terms of subsection (1) (d).
(b)
Any other act performed in terms of the regulations under the Wine, Other Fermented
Beverages and Spirits Act, 1957, with regard to wine and in respect of which an authority referred to in
subsection (1) (c) could have been granted if a scheme for wine was established before the act
concerned was performed, shall on the repeal of the empowering provision in respect of such
regulations remain in force, and shall, when such scheme for wine is established, be deemed to be an
act performed in terms of the relevant scheme.
16. Restriction on the importation of certain alcoholic products.–
(1)
(a)
No person shall import any product with an alcohol content of more than one per cent into
the Republic for drinking purposes, except on the authority of an import certificate issued by the
administering officer.
(b)
The provisions of paragraph (a) shall not apply to–
(i) beer, sorghum beer and medicine referred to in section 4 (2);
(ii) a product referred to in that paragraph that is imported by or for a Head of State, or by or
for a diplomatic or other foreign representative referred to in Item 406.00 of Schedule 4 of
the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No. 91 of 1964); and
(iii) a product referred to in that paragraph that is imported for a prescribed purpose, or of
which a consignment does not exceed the prescribed volume.
(2) An application for an import certificate shall be made in the prescribed manner, and the
prescribed application fee shall be payable in respect thereof.
(3)
(a)
Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b), an import certificate shall be issued only if–
(i) the product concerned is wine, an alcoholic fruit beverage, a spirit, a grape–based liquor
or a spirit–based liquor; and
(ii) in the case of a product imported in the containers in which it is to be sold in the Republic,
the labels on those containers comply with the applicable requirements of this Act.
(b)
An import certificate may also be issued in respect of a product other than a product
referred to in paragraph (a) (i) if–
(i) that product does not contain a particular prescribed substance to a greater extent than
prescribed;
(ii) that product is imported in the fully labelled containers in which it is to be sold in the
Republic;
(iii) the labels on those containers comply with the applicable requirements of this Act; and
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