3. Grant of brewery or manufactory licence.

3. Grant of brewery or manufactory licence.

1. Any person desiring to construct and work a brewery for the manufacture of beer or a manufactory for the manufacture of wine shall make an application in Form BRA ¹[accompanied by a challan evidencing payment of a fee of five hundred rupees for such application]¹ for a licence in that behalf to the State Government through the Director. Where a person desires to construct and work a brewery and also a manufactory, he shall make two separate applications in the behalf. The application shall be accompanied by a plan in quadruplicate containing a full description of the premises and material, utensils, plant and implements or apparatus required for manufacturing beer, or, as the case may be, wine. The applicant shall also submit with the application four signed copies of a statement explaining the process which he desires to adopt for manufacturing beer or wine. One receipt of an application the Director shall forward it to the State Government with his recommendation thereon.

2. If the State Government is satisfied that the premises, material, utensils, plant and implements or apparatus to be used in connection with the manufacture of beer or wine and arrangements for the storage and issues there of are suitable, it may grant a licence in Form BRL to the applicant on payment of ²a fee (inclusive of consideration) of ³[forty thousand rupees] for the manufacture of beer and on payment of a fee (inclusive of consideration of ³[four thousand rupees] for the manufacture of wine]² or may refuse to grant it, after giving the applicant and opportunity to be heard; and inform the Director of the decision. In no case, a common licence shall be granted for constructing and working a brewery and a manufactory. On a licence being granted, the State Government shall retain with it the original of the plan and of the statement explaining the process forward by the applicant and after duly stamping the duplicated, triplicates and quadruplicated there of with the seal of the State Government,—

   1. Forward the duplicates to the brewery office, where the licence is granted for constructing and working a brewery and to the manufactory officer, where the licence is granted for constructing and working a manufactory;
   2. forward the triplicates to the District Prohibition and Excise Officer; and
   3. return the quadruplicated together with the licence to the applicant.

   ⁶Provided that, the same licence in Form BRL shall be granted to any person desiring to construct and work a microbrewery or a restaurant-brewery.⁶

3. No licence shall be granted for a period exceeding ⁴one year⁴ and in no case shall such period extend beyond 31st March ⁷next⁷ following the date of commencement of the licence.

⁵3A. Existing licence-holders⁵—

on the commencement of the Maharashtra Manufacture of Beer and Wine (Amendment) Rules, 1988, a licence granted under sub-rule (2) of rule 32 for a period of five years prior to such commencement, the period of which does not expire on the 31st March, 1988, shall be deemed to have come to an end on the 31st March 1988 and it shall further be deemed to be a fresh annual licence granted which effect from the 1st April 1988, in terms of the said amendment rules:

Provided that a holder of such licence shall—

1. within a period of two months from such commencement be required to pay the difference, if any in licence fee, in proportion to the licence fees already paid by him under the sub-rule (2) of rule 3 as it stood prior to such commencement and the renewal fees payable in terms of the said amendment rules;