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SOUTH AFRICA
ACT
To provide for control over the sale and production for sale of certain alcoholic products, the
composition and properties of such products and the use of certain particulars in connection with the
sale of such products; for the establishment of schemes; for control over the import and export of
certain alcoholic products; and for matters connected therewith.
1. Definitions.–In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates–
“administering officer” means the administering officer who has been designated under section 3;
“advertisement”, in relation to a liquor product, means any written, illustrated, visual or other
descriptive matter or oral statement, communication, representation or reference which is distributed among
members of the public or otherwise brought to their notice, and which is or purports to be intended to promote
the sale of a liquor product or to encourage the use thereof or otherwise to draw attention thereto; and
“advertise” has a corresponding meaning;
“alcohol content”, in relation to any product, means a percentage of ethyl alcohol per volume of the
product;
“alcoholic fruit beverage” means a product which complies with the requirements referred to in
section 6;
“analyst” means a person designated under section 20 as an analyst or who is deemed to have been so
designated;
“board” means the Wine and Spirit Board established by section 2;
“class designation”–
(a) in relation to wine, an alcoholic fruit beverage, a spirit, a grape–based liquor or a spirit–based
liquor, means the prescribed designation for a class thereof;
(b) in relation to a specially authorized liquor, means the designation specified in a notice published
under section 10; and
(c)
in relation to any other liquor product in respect of which an import certificate has been issued,
means the designation specified in such import certificate;
“container” means a receptacle with a capacity not exceeding 5 litres;
“department” means the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing;
“Director–General” means the Director–General of the department;
“export certificate” means an export certificate referred to in section 17, or a document which is in
terms of the said section deemed to be an export certificate;
“grape–based liquor” means a product which complies with the requirements referred to in section 8;
“grapes” means fruit of plants of Vitis vinifera;
“import certificate” means an import certificate referred to in section 16, or a document which is in
terms of the said section deemed to be an import certificate;
“label”, in relation to a container, means any printing or writing appearing on the container or attached
thereto;
“liquor product” means–
(a) wine;
(b) an alcoholic fruit beverage;
(c)
a spirit;
(d) a grape–based liquor;
(e) a spirit–based liquor;
(f)
a specially authorized liquor; and
(g) any liquor other than a product mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f), in respect of
which an import certificate has been issued;
“Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture;
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Marks (Liquors), Act (Consolidation), 17/05/1989 (1993), No. 60 (No. 11)
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