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Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996 (Act No. 47 of 1996)

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Continuation and Establishment of Statutory Measures and Determination of Guideline Prices: Wine Industry : Effective 1 January 2022

6. Returns measure

 

(1) All bottlers, grape producers, wine exporters, wine producers and wine traders shall keep such records and render the returns as may be required by SAWIS relating to—
(a) vines;
(b) grapes;
(c) grape juice, grape juice concentrate, drinking wine, industrial wine, distilling wine and wine spirit produced, received, stored, sold, exported or otherwise utilised.

 

(2) The Department shall render a copy of all export documents required by SAWIS or furnish information required by SAWIS regarding exports within the period specified in subclause (4).

 

(3) The records referred to in subclause (1) shall—
(a) be recorded on a computer or with ink in a book;
(b) be kept at the registered premises of the person required to keep it for a period of at least three years.

 

(4) The returns referred to in subclause (1) shall be rendered on forms obtainable free of charge for this purpose from SAWIS within 15 days after the end of each calendar month and shall—
(a) be submitted, when forwarded by post, to—

SAWIS, P.O. Box 238, Paarl, 7620;

(b) when delivered by hand, be delivered to—

SAWIS, Main Road 312, Paarl;

(c) when submitted electronically, be sent to the address and in the format obtainable from SAWIS or done on sawisonline.co.za.