FORM D. S. I

1949 : Bom. XXV] 	Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 
 
FORM D. S. I 
(Rule 5) 
 
 
 
 
 
Licence No. ..................... 
379 
Licence for the denaturation of Indian-made rectified spirit including absolute alcohol 
under bond, and for the sale of denatured spirit from the warehouse. 
Licence is hereby granted under and subject to the provisions of the Bombay 
Prohibition Act, 1949, and the rules, regulations and orders made thereunder to 
...............................................................of ................................................................................. 
(hereinafter referred to as “ the licensee ” ) on payment of 
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[a fee of Rs. .........................] 
authorising him to receive or store Indian-made rectified spirit inculding absolute alcohol 
(hereinafter referred to as spirit) and to denature it under bond at the bonded warehouse at 
................................ and to sell ordinary denatured spirit therefrom during the 
period from ........................... to...................... subject to the following conditions, namely : 
Conditions 
1. The licensee shall not 
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[save as otherwise permitted by the Commissioner]
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* 
denature spirit at any place except in a room (hereinafter referred to as the denaturing 
room”) allotted for the purpose at the warehouse. 
2. The door of the licensee’s denaturing room shall have two locks, of which one 
shall be provided by the licensee and the key of it kept with him. The other shall be an 
excise revenue lock the key of which shall be kept with the officer in charge of the 
warehouse. The licensee shall open his lock at any time when required to do so by the 
officer in charge of the warehouse. 
3. (1) The licensee shall not keep anything in the denaturing room except spirits, 
denaturants, vats and their accessories and testing instruments. 
(2) The licensee shall not enter or allow any person to enter the denaturing room 
with a naked light. 
(3) The licensee shall not use any lamp other than an electric safety lamp of a 
design approved by the Commissioner. 
4. (1) The licensee shall not keep denatured spirit in casks used for transport and 
shall transfer the spirit from such casks by pumping it into a storage vat or tank having a 
capacity of not less than 
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[2,250 lires] of such smaller capacity as the Commissioner may 
permit. 
(2) The licensee shall have the vats or tanks used for the storage of spirit painted 
white, and those used for the denaturation or for storage or denatured spirit painted red. 
(3) The licensee shall have each storage and denaturing vat so guaged as to 
show its depth 
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[at every centimetre and millimetre ] and shall provide it with a guage rod 
and a discharge cock having an internal diameter of not less than 
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[3.75 millimetres]. 
 
 
1.   Subs. by G.N. of 4-11-1968. 
2.   Ins. by G. N. of 22-10-1966. 
3.   Deleted. by G. N. of 3-8-1967.

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5. 
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[Except where the Commissioner directs otherwise, the licensee shall denature] 
spirit in fixed vats of tanks having a capacity of not less than 
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[2,250 litres] or of such 
smaller capacity as the Commissioner may permit. The licensee shall carry on all 
denaturing operations in the presence of both the officers in charges of the warehouse 
and himself or his agent. 
6. (1) Before any denaturing operation commences, the licensee shall keep the 
denaturing vat 
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[or tank or any other receptacle (hereinafter referred to as “the vat ”) in 
which denaturing operation may have been permitted by the Commissioner] empty. 
(2) The licensee shall first place the approved denaturants in the prescribed propor- 
tions in the vat and then after testing the spirit shall add it thereto immediately thereafter. 
(3) The licensee shall then effectively stir the contents of the vat to ensure that they 
are properly mixed. 
7. (1) The licensee may sell or supply any spirit denatured under this licence from 
the warehouse before the samples of such spirit taken for analysis under rule 13 of the 
Bombay Denatured Spirit Rules, 1959, are examined by the 
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[ officer-in-charge of the 
Industrial Research Laboratory, Poona or Matunga] 
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[ or any other laboratory notified 
under rule 9 A, by Government from time to time, or the Director Haffkine Institute for 
Training, Research and Testing, Bombay or  Director, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune] 
and certified by him to be satisfactorily denatured. 
(2) If 
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[the officer-in-charge of the Industrial Research Laboratory, Poona or 
Matunga] 
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[or any other laboratory notified under rule 9A, by Governmnet from time to 
time, or the Director, Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing, Bombay or  
Director, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune] certifies that the spirit is insufficiently 
denatured, the licensee shall denature the spirit again by adding such denaturants as are 
necessary and send it to the chemical Analyser for examination through the officer in 
charge of the warehouse and obtain a certificate from the Chemical Analyser that the 
spirit has been satisfactorily denatured. 
(3) Where 
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[ the officer-in-charge of the Industrial Research Laboratory, Poona or 
Matunga] 
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[or any other laboratory notified under rule 9A, by Government, from time to 
time, or the Director, Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing, Bombay or  
Director, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune] reports that the spirit cannot be certified as 
being satisfactorily denatured, the denatured spirit shall be dealt with according to the 
order of the Commissioner. 
8. (1) Except with the permission of the Commissioner or of the officer specially 
authorised by the Commissioner in that behalf, the licensee shall not sell or supply from 
the warehouse ordinary denatured spirit in quantities of less than 
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[200 litres] at a time and 
of a strengh lower than 60.00
0
 O. P. 
(2) The licensee shall not sell or supply ordinary denatured spirit 
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[or specially 
denatured spirit to any person unless he produces] a requisition countersigned by a State 
Excise Officer. The licensee shall carefully preserve the requisitions and give them to the 
officer-in-charge of the warehouse on his next visit to the denaturing room. All denatured 
spirit issued from the warehouse shall be accompanied by a permit signed by such officer. 
 
1.   Subs. by G.N. of 4-11-1968. 
2.    Subs. by G. N. of   22-10-1966. 
3. Ins., ibid. 
4.   Ins. by G. N. of   28-11-1988.

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9. Before the removal of ordinary denatured spirit from the warehouse the licensee shall give two 
hours’ notice in writing to the officer-in-charge of the warehouse. The notice shall state the date and 
hour of issue, the quantity and strength of the spirit to be issued and its destination. 
10. The head of each cask or drum used for the transport of denatured spirit from the warehouse shall 
be painted red, and shall have the words “ Denatured spirit ” conspicuously painted upon it in white 
together with the following partuculars : 
Name of the warehouse, serial No. of the cask or drum, capacity in gallons and drums and the 
situation of the licensed premises or place where denatured spirit is to be transported. 
11. The licensee shall affix to the front of his warehouse a signboard bearing his name, the of 
the warehouse and the words “ Licensed 
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[to denature] spirit and sell ordinary denatured spirit ” 
12. The licensee shall keep a visit book at the warehouse for the uses of the inspecting officers. 
This book shall be paged and stamped with the seal of the Superitendent or the District Inspector, as 
the case may be. 
13. The licensee shall not sell denatured spirit at a price in excess of the maximum price prescribed 
by the Commissioner under the Act. 
14. The licence may be suspended or cancelled in accordance with the provi- sions of section 
54 or 56 of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949. 
15. It shall be entirely within the discretion of the Commissioner whether he will or will not 
renew this licence. If this licence is not renewed, or if it be cancelled or suspended the vessels and 
utensils, denaturing materials, spirit and denatured spirit remaining on the premises at the time of the 
expiration, cancellation or suspension of this licence shall be disposed of according to the orders of the 
Commissioner. If the licence is renewed, it shall be granted subject to such conditions as the 
Government may direct. 
Dated this ............................... day of ................................. 19 
Seal 
Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise, Bombay.