Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 56

56 .         Evidence as to production of liquor

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be taken to have produced liquor — 

            (a)         being wine made from grapes — 

                  (i)         if it was fermented by, or under the control or direction of, that person; or

                  (ii)         if, in the case of wine produced by blending, all the wine used was fermented from produce grown or produced in Australia;

            (b)         being wine not made from grapes, if it was fermented or otherwise made from produce grown, produced or obtained by that person;

            (c)         being spirits, if it was distilled by that person; or

            (d)         being beer, if it was brewed by that person.

        (2)         In determining any question as to the fermentation of wine, maturation of the wine after final bottling shall be disregarded.

        [Section 56 amended by No. 74 of 2003 s. 78.]