The Department of Excise and Taxation, Govt. of Punjab on March 12, 2025, issued the Punjab Distillery (Chandigarh 1st Amendment) Rules, 2025, to further amend the Punjab Distillery Rules, 1932.
This shall come into force with effect from April 01, 2025.
The following has been stated namely: -
• In Rule 93, the existing clause (kk), shall be substituted. It states that the Chandigarh Administration has set label registration fees for various liquor categories, requiring wholesale licensees to pay for each brand they market, with mandatory labeling guidelines for imported liquor.
• Rule 122B shall be substituted. It states that Holograms/intaglio-printed security labels and 'Track & Trace' barcodes are mandatory on liquor bottles, affixed at bottling or transferred by licensees at their own expense, except for L-9 licensees.
• Rule 122D shall be substituted. It states that the Bottling Plants will get a technical and structural audit of their Bottling plant done from reputed institutions like IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Ropar, PEC (Deemed University) Chandigarh or Thapar Institute of Technology, Patiala by 01.05.2025, at their own expense. If the audit report is not submitted, the plant will not be allowed to operate post 01.05.2025.
[Notification no. - E & T/ETO(X)-2025/4103]
