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Liquor Products Act, 1989 (Act No. 60 of 1989)

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Authorisation to sell sacramental beverage

4. Requirements for sacramental beverages

 

A sacramental beverage shall—

(a) be obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of a mixture consisting of the juice of fresh grapes to which cane sugar has been added;
(b) be produced or manufactured in such a manner that not more than 45 per cent of the total sugar content of the mixture referred to in paragraph (a) prior to fermentation is derived from cane sugar;
(c) [Section 4(c) deleted by section 2 of Notice No. R. 1696 of 1995]
(d) have a volatile acidity, calculated as acetic acid, of not more than 1,2 gram per litre; and
(e) contain not more than 200 mg of sulphur dioxide per litre, of which not more than 50 mg per litre may be in the form of free sulphur dioxide.