Regulations, 1980

L.N. 3 of 1980

EXCISE DUTY (CROWN CORKS AND NON-ALCOBOLIC

CONCENTRATES) ORDINANCE, 1961

(ORDINANCE NO. XXI OF 1961)

Non-alcoholic Beverages (Exclusion of Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars)

Regulations, 1980

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Excise

Duty (Crown Corks and Non-A1coholic Concentrates) Ordinance, 1961 ,

the Minister of Finance, Customs and People's Financial Investments

has made the following regulations:-

l. These regulations may be cited as the Non-a1coholic Beverages

<Exc1usion of Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars) Regulations, 1980.

Dawn ir-regolamenti jistgħu jissejħu r-Regolamenti ta' 1-1980 Titolu.

dwar Xorb Mhux-alkoholiku (Esklużjoni ta' Meraq tal-Frott u Nektar

tal-Frott).

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"fruit juice" means the fermentable but unfermented juice

which is obtained from fmit by a mechanical process and which

has the characteristic colour, flavour and taste of the fmit from

which it is obtained, and inc1udes the product obtained by the

addition of water to a concentrated fmit juice in a quantity not

exceeding that contained in similar non-concentrated juices of

normal composition and which has the organoleptic and analytical

characteristics of the fmit juice obtained by a mechanical process

as aforesaid;

"concentrated fmit juice" means fmit juice which has been

concentrated by the removal of part of its water content, but does

not inc1ude dried fmit juice;

"fruit puree" means the fermentable but unfermented product

obtained by cmshing and straining the entire edible part of whole

or pee1ed fruit;

"fmit nectar" means the fermentable but unfermented product

which is obtained by adding sugar Of water and sugar to fmit juice,

concentrated fruit juice, fruit puree, concentrated fmit puree or an

admixture of these products, so however that not less than forty

per cent by weight of the product is obtained from fmit and the

added sugar content, ca1culated as dry matter, does not exceed

twenty per cent by weight of the finished product.

Fruit juices and fruit nectars are hereby exc1uded from the

expression "non-a1coholic beverages" contained in section 2 of the

Excise Duty (Crown Corks and Non-alcoholic Concentrates) Ordinance,

1961. Ippubblikat mid·Dipartiment

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