Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Denatured Alcohol (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1 July 2013.

Amendment of the Denatured Alcohol Regulations 2005

2.The Denatured Alcohol Regulations 2005( 3 ) are amended as follows.

3. After regulation 13(1) insert—

“ (1A) But paragraph (1) does not apply where—

(a) the denatured alcohol is received as a free sample; or

(b) (i) the denatured alcohol is for the use of—

(aa) a school, or

(ab) an institution offering further or higher education; and

(ii) in any calendar year, the amounts received for that use do not exceed 5 litres of industrial denatured alcohol and 5 litres of trade specific denatured alcohol. ” .

4. In regulation 14—

(a) at the beginning, insert “(1)”; and

(b) at the end, insert—

“ (2) But paragraph (1) does not apply where the supply is to a person who, in consequence of regulation 13(1A), is not required to be authorised in accordance with these Regulations. ” .

5. In the Schedule—

(a) for paragraph 1 substitute—

“ 1. Completely denatured alcohol must be made in accordance with the following formulation: with every 100 parts by volume of alcohol mix 3 parts by volume of isopropyl alcohol, 3 parts by volume of methylethylketone and one gramme of denatonium benzoate (of the description mentioned in paragraph 4). ” ;

(b) in paragraph 4, for “mentioned in paragraph 3, and in paragraph 6” substitute “mentioned in paragraphs 1, 3 and 6”;

(c) in paragraph 5, omit “or dyes” in both places where it appears;

(d) in paragraph 6—

(i) omit “crude pyridine, mineral naphtha,”; and

(ii) for “denatonium benzoate, and dyes” substitute “and denatonium benzoate”;

(e) omit paragraph 8;

(f) omit paragraph 9;

(g) omit paragraph 10; and

(h) omit the notes.