Certificate of registration (for overseas manufacturer/ importer of duty-paid Foreign Liquor/authorised Custom-Bond holder of imported Foreign Liquor (Spirits) or Beer or Wine)

Certificate of registration is hereby granted to Shri/Messrs

(here State the name and address)

authorising him/them to sell duty-paid imported Foreign Liquor (Spirits) and / or Beer and / or Wine to a Licence in Form FL-1 or FL/W-1 (herein after referred to as the wholesaler) having paid into the Government Treasury annual fees as prescribed from time to time, under and subject to the provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition Act and the Maharashtra Foreign Liquor (Import and Export) Rules, 1963 and any other rules, regulations and orders made there under and subject to the following conditions, namely:

Conditions

1. All labels required to be used shall be submitted to the Commissioner for approval before sale to the wholesaler.
2. All bottles and packages containing Foreign Liquor/Spirits/Beer/Wine shall bear a label showing the name of the manufacturer; the name of brand, the place of manufacture, alcoholic strength, batch number, the month and year of manufacture and the maximum retail price (inclusive of all taxes and duties). In addition to above details, the label shall also contain an inscription, namely: "FOR SALE IN MAHARASHTRA STATE ONLY," in bold letters and the letters "Consumption of Alcohol is injurious to health. Be safe. Don't Drink and Drive" along with the guaranteed fluid contents of each bottle, cask or keg.
3. All bottles, casks or kegs shall be firmly crown corked or properly closed with bungs and sealed. Metalic crown corks shall be firmly fixed, in a proper position by a working machine.
4. Foreign Liquor-Spirits/Beer/Wine meant for supplies to the Defence services through the Canteen Stores Department (India) Limited, shall bear and additional inscription in red letters as follows, namely: "FOR DEFENCE SERVICES ONLY".
5. The holder of certificate shall declare manufacturing cost and the maximum retail price of every brand and pack to the Commissioner before any change is effected there in quadruplicate. The duly authenticated copy of which will be returned to him, one copy will be sent to the Superintendent of State Excise in the district in which the importer's trade licence is located and one copy will be sent to the officer-in-charge of Trade and Import Licence.

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