Section 861 in Rules under the United Provinces Excise Act, 1910
861. Definitions.
- In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-(i)"Beer" includes ale, stout, port and all other fermented liquor made from malt;(ii)"Brewer" means a person holding licence in Form B-I for running a brewery;(iii)"Brewery" means a building where beer is brewed and includes every place therein where beer is stored or wherefrom it is issued;(iv)"Copper" means any vessel in which either worts or water is boiled or heated in the course of brewing;(v)"Excise year" means the period from April one to March thirty-one following;(vi)"Fermenting vessel" means any vessel in which worts are fermented by the action of yeast;(vii)"Gravity" means the proportion which the weight of a liquid Beers to that of an equal bulk of distilled water, the gravity of distilled water at 60° F being taken to be 1,000°;(viii)"Hops" means the ripe female flowers of the hop plant or its other parts used in brewing for giving bitter taste to beer and for preserving and clarifying it;(ix)"Hop back" means any vessel into which worts are run after boiling for removal of the spent hops;(x)"Malt" means the basic germinated grain used for brewing obtained as a result of diastatic fermentation or subjecting grain to the process of steeping and couching;(xi)"Malt substitutes" means sugars or starches mixed in proper proportion for being used as a substitute for malt for brewing purposes;(xii)"Mashtun" means any vessel in which malt or grain is exhausted of its fermentable content in the course of brewing;(xiii)"Officer-in-charge" means the Excise Inspector or any other officer of the Excise Department not below the rank of an Excise Inspector, appointed by the Excise Commissioner to hold charge of a brewery;(xiv)"Racking or Settling back" means any vessel into which worts are passed from a fermenting vessel and run off ("racked"), either at once or after a time into store vats or casks;(xv)"Under back" means any vessel into which worts are run, either from the mashtun or hop back;(xvi)"Worts" means the liquor obtained by the exhaustion of malt or grain or by the solution of saccharine matter in the process of brewing.A-Establishment of Breweries
