THE BOMBAY SACRAMENTAL WINE (MANUFACTURING) RULES 1950.

These rules may be called the Bombay sacramental Wine Manufacturing Rules, 1950. 

They extend to the whole of the State of Maharashtra.]

“Act” means the Bombay prohibition Act, 1949;

“Authorization” means an authorization granted under the Bombay Sacramental Wine Rules, 1950;

“Bishop” means a priest of the Roman Catholic Church consecrated as a Governor of a diocese;

“Form” means a form appended to these rules;

“Inspector” means an Inspector or a 1[Sub-Inspector of prohibition and Excise in charge of the taluka, tahsil, petha, mahal or division] in which the manufactory is situated;

“Licence” means a licence granted under rule 4;

“Licensee” means a person who has been granted a licence under rule-4.

“Manufactory” means the room or building wherein the manufacture of sacramental wine is permitted under a licence; 

“Officer-in-charge” means a Prohibition Officer appointed for the purpose of supervising the operations at a manufactory.

“Sacramental Wine” means wine required for offering the Holy Sacrifice of Mass in a Roman Catholic Church or for use by any person for sacramental purposes and prepared form raisins at a manufactory in accordance with the provisions of these rules;

Words and expressions not defined in these rules shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.

Any regional head of a religion or religious sect desiring to manufacture and sell sacramental wine shall make an application to the collector for a licence. The application shall contain the following particulars, namely :

(1) Name and address of the applicant;

(2) Place where sacramental wine is to be manufactured;

(3) Description and plan in duplicate of the manufactory;

(4) A statement in triplicate specifying the number, size and description of the fermenting, filtering and settling vessels and such other permanent apparatus as are proposed to be used in the manufactory;

(5) A statement showing the maximum quantity of sacramental wine proposed to be manufactured at the manufactory during the currency of the licence;

(6) A statement showing the region to which the sacramental wine will be distributed after manufacture together with the number and names of persons with their designations in the region and the quantity of sacramental wine to be distributed to each such person;

(7) whether sacramental wine was manufactured in the manufactory in the past and if so, the period during which, sacramental wine was manufactured and the quantity thereof, and the number and names of places and persons and quantities of sacramental wine distributed to them.

The applicant shall also give an udertaking to the effect that he shall abide by the provisions of the Act and the rules, regulations and orders made thereunder and the conditions of the licence.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this rule the head of a religion or a religious sect shall include a Bishop.

put raisins into a receptacle, preferably a cask, cut into two halves;

wash them, if dirty;

add water to raisins in proportion of not less than 11:10 (thus 1 [100 litres] or more of water for 1 [91 kilograms] of raisins);

leave the raisins in the water and crush them after 48 hours; 

put the raisins in the cask for fermentation;

Stir the fresh crushed juice or raisins, hereinafter called “must” with clean stick once a day during fermentation;

draw off the wine after fifteen days of fermentation;

pour it into a vat prepared for filteration;

filter if with while sack-cloth (Dutch system);

pour it into a cask after filteration;

if the cask is not filled up to the brim with wine, burn some sulpher in the empty space;

after a short time draw the wine off and bottle it.

The licensee shall not destory all sacramental wine which, on analysis, is found to be deteriorated or unfit for human consumption in accordance with the orders of the Collector.

The licensee shall not manufacture sacramental wine of a strength exceeding 20 per cent of proof spirit.

The licensee shall not issue any sacramental wine unless he sends previous intimation in form ‘B’ to the Treasury Office concerned or the 1 [Chief Accounts Officer of Prohibition and Excise, Bombay], as the case may be; he shall forward a copy thereof to the Collector of the district and the Officer-in-charge.

The licensee shall pay into Government treasury the amount of excise duty, transport fee and special fee at the following rates in respect of the sacramental wine to be issued form the manufactory and shall present to the Officer-in-charge a copy of the challan in token of the payment of such duty and fees, namely :

1 [(i) rate of excise duty—

22 nP. per litre of Sacramental Wine.

(ii) rate of transport fee—

4 nP. per litre of Sacramental Wine.

(iii) rate of special fee—

12 nP. per litre of sacramental wine.]

Except as permitted under an authorization sacramental wine shall not be removed except under a transport pass in Form S. W. III.

The transport pass shall be made out in qiard duplicate which shall be dealt with as under—

Part I shall be retained by the Officer-in-charge;

Parts II, III and IV shall be given to the licensee; and

Part V shall be sent by the Officer-in-charge to the 2 [Inspector of Prohibition and Excise] at the place of destination.

The licensee shall retain Part II for his record and forward Parts III and IV along with the consignment to the person receiving the consignment. The person receiving the consignment shall retain Part IV and retain Part III with his acknowledgment to the Officer-in-charge who shall file it with the Part I.

The licensee shall maintain such accounts and shall furnish such returns as may be prescribed by the Commissioner under this Act. 

The licensee shall keep at the manufactory a chart in form ‘C’ showing the monthly outturn and issue of sacramental wine in each year and also a visit book wherein Inspecting Officers may record their remarks.