Singapore legislation

Clause 13

of Customs (Amendment) Bill

Clause 13

New sections 61A and 61B

The Customs Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 61 thereof the following sections: —“No person except a licensee to keep utensil, apparatus, etc., for bottling, blending, etc.61A.—

(1)

No person other than the holder of a licence under subsection (1) of section 61 of this Act shall knowingly keep or have in his possession any utensil, apparatus, material or ingredient for bottling, blending, compounding or varying intoxicating liquor.(2) The owner and the occupier of any land or premises upon which any utensil, apparatus, material or ingredient for bottling, blending, compounding or varying intoxicating liquor is found shall each be deemed, until the contrary is proved, knowingly to have kept or had in his possession such utensil, apparatus, material or ingredient for the bottling, blending, compounding or varying of intoxicating liquor, as the case may be.Exemptions61B.—

(1)

Nothing in this Act shall apply to any bottling, blending, compounding or varying of intoxicating liquor by a legally qualified medical practitioner or by any chemist in the service of the Government or by any person registered as a pharmacist under the Pharmacists Registration Act (Cap. 223) or, with the approval of the Director-General, by a qualified chemist which is proved to be for genuine medicinal or scientific purposes.(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of section 61A of this Act shall apply to stocks held by a bona fide trader in scientific apparatus or in machinery or, with the approval of the Director-General, to any utensil, apparatus, material or ingredient for bottling, blending, compounding or varying intoxicating liquor in the possession of a person constructing a bottling warehouse, distillery, brewery or other factory with the approval of the Director-General or of a person in occupation of premises temporarily closed down, in respect of which a licence had previously been held.”.

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