PART-I

(b) "Chemical Analyser" means '²[Director, Haffkine Institute, Bombay]² or ²[Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune]² or any other officer appointed by the State Government as Chemical Analyser for the purposes of these Rules;

(c) "Compounding" means the manufacture of potable liquor by addition to spirit of a flavouring or colouring matter or both;

(d) "Distillery Officer" means a Prohibition and Excise Officer appointed for the purpose of supervising the working of distillery;

(e) "Excise supervision" means supervision over operations at a distillery or over manufacture of potable liquor in a manufactory by members of the staff of the Prohibition and Excise Department appointed in that behalf by the Commissioner or any Prohibition Officer duly empowered by the State Government or the Commissioner in that behalf;

(f) "Fermentative base" means molasses, mhowra flowers or any other substance containing sugar from which a licensee is allowed to manufacture potable liquor;

(g) "Form" means a form appended to these Rules;

(h) "licence" means a licence granted under these Rules;

(i) "licensee" means a person who holds a licence;

(j) "liquor room" means that portion of the manufactory which is set apart for the storage of potable liquor in sealed bottles and other receptacles;

(k) "Manufactory", means that portion of a distillery premises which is set apart for the manufacture of potable liquor and includes a liquor room and every place therein from which such liquor is issued;

(l) "Manufactory Officer" means the Prohibition and Excise Officer appointed for the purpose of supervising the operations in a manufactory;

(m) "potable liquor" means brandy, whisky, rum, gin or any other liquor manufactured either by the process of distillation, or by compounding or blending spirit with essence, colouring and flavouring substances;

(n) "spirit" means rectified spirit including absolute alcohol;

(o) "to reduce" means to reduce the strength of spirit to a prescribed strength by addition of pure filtered water; and the expression "reducing" shall be construed accordingly;

(p) "spirit room" means that portion of a manufactory which is set apart for the storage of spirit;

(q) "wash" means sugary solution prepared from a fermentative base and water, in which fermentation has started or to which yeast or active wash has been added;

(r) "washback" means a vessel used for the storage of wash during its fermentation;

(s) "wort" means sugary solution prepared from a fermentative base and water, in which fermentation has not started.

¹ Subs. by G.N. of 31-5-1971.

² Ins. by G.N. of 2-1-2014.

The short title of this Act has been amended as "The Maharashtra Prohibition Act" by Mah. 24 of 2012. S.2, Sch. entry 37, w.e.f. 1-5-1960