(a) Every person who wishes to get a grant of privilege for the manufacture of spirit and a licence to establish a distillery for the manufacture of such spirit therein may apply in Form I appended to these rules to the Commissioner. Separate application shall be made and separate application fee, licence fee and privilege fee shall be paid for the manufacture of spirit from each of raw material, namely, molasses, tapioca, grape and malt 2 [or other fermentative bases]. Where the applicant for the licence is a Firm, name and other particulars of all the partners shall be specified in the application and if a licence is granted to the applicant the names of all the partners shall be specified in the licence. No additional partners shall be admitted to the Firm after the grant of licence unless the Commissioner agrees, on an application made to him in writing, to alter the licence and to add the name or names of the partners in the licence.
2.Substituted by G.OMs.No.22, Home P&E(II) dated 22.04.2008
(b) Every such application shall be affixed with a court-fee label to the value of rupees two and accompanied by 3 [treasury receipts in proof of payment of an application fee of rupees two thousand, a fee of rupees eight lakhs for the grant of privilege of manufacturing spirit and a licence fee of rupees twenty thousand together with -
3. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.15, P&E(II) dated 13.06.2017.
(i) description and plans of the buildings in which the distillery is proposed to be established;
and
(ii) statements specifying the number, size and descriptions of the various plants and equipments such as stills and other permanent apparatus which are proposed to be used.
(c) In submitting the plans of buildings and plants and equipments, the following have to be provided and clearly indicated:- 4 [(1) Covered molasses or other fermentative bases storage for 25% ( twenty five percent) of annual requirements, comprising of at least two tanks or storage rooms.]
4. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.22, Home, P&E(II), dated 22nd April 2008
(2) Alcohol storage for fifteen percent of annual capacity.
(3) Lorry weigh bridge of adequate capacity.
(4) Recording types of weight -scale for molasses taken for fermentation.
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(5) Suitable office room, strategically located for use of the Distillery Officer.
(6) A well equipped laboratory.
(7) Buildings used for manufacturing spirit conform to specifications prescribed in sub- rule (f).
(8) Separate storage rooms and fermentation tanks for each kind of 1 [fermentative bases] stored or subjected to fermentation and distillation process:
1. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.22, Home, P&E(II)Dept, dated the 22nd April 2008.
Provided that where a distillery is attached to a sugar mill having the covered molasses storage as provided in item (1) and the lorry weigh bridge of adequate capacity as provided in item
(3), such distillery shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of the said items (1) and (3), respectively.
(d) Every person desiring to construct new buildings to be used as a distillery shall, before commencing the work of construction, submit a plan of the proposed building to the Commissioner for the approval. Any alternation or addition suggested by the Commissioner in the plan shall be duly carried out by the said person.
(e) If the licence is granted, the licensee shall, as soon as the licence is received, furnish a duplicate copy of the descriptions, plans and statements referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) of sub- rule
(b) as approved by the Commissioner, to the Joint Commissioner for record in his office.
(f) (1) The buildings used for the manufactory or warehouse shall be constructed with bricks or stone and the roof provided should be of reinforced cement concrete or Madras Terrace or should be of non inflammable materials.
(2) All the windows, ventilators and skylights in the building other than those in the warehouse and store room shall be fitted with rods spaced not more than 10 centimeters apart centre to centre. All the windows, ventilators and skylights in the warehouse and store room shall be covered with galvanized wire net or square mesh, not more than half centimeters apart.
(3) All the doors which are to be fitted with Excise ticked locks shall be free from tampering of the hinges from outside.
(4) All the doors fitted to the building shall open outwards.
(5) There shall be no thatched building within the manufactory premises or warehouse compound.
(6) All the openings in the external walls intended for the efflux of waste water shall be covered with grills affixed to the wall.
(7) There shall be separate rooms or compartments for storage of spirit for blending or reducing operations and the doors of each room shall provide for locking with excise ticket locks.
The compartments shall have their grills embedded in cement. No such room or compartment shall be used for more than one of any such purpose.
(8) The distillery premises shall be enclosed by a compound wall with sufficient protection to prevent undue access from outside into distillery premises. There shall not be more than one entrance and one exit.
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