| (1) | The administering officer may register a code number in respect of the responsible seller of a liquor product with a view to the use thereof as contemplated in regulation 33(1)(d). |
| (2) | An application for the registration of a code number shall be made on a form obtainable from the administering officer for this purpose. |
| (a) | be completed by the responsible seller concerned or a person duly authorized to apply on his behalf; |
| (i) | a certified copy of the licence or authority referred to in regulation 38(1)(a), in respect of the responsible seller concerned; and |
[Regulation 40(3)(b)(ii) substituted by regulation 2(a) of Notice No. R. 678 of 2001]
| (c) | be lodged with the administering officer. |
(4)
| (a) | Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b), a number allocated in terms of section 23(1)(a)(ii) or 27(1)(b)(ii) of the Wine, Other Fermented Beverages and Spirits Act, 1957 (Act No. 25 of 1957), shall be deemed to be a code number registered in terms of this regulation. |
| (b) | The validity of a code number referred to in paragraph (a) shall expire on a date 90 days after the commencement of this regulation unless the responsible seller concerned has on or before such date of expiry lodged an application for the continuation of the validity thereof in the manner set out in subregulations (2) and (3). |
(5)
| (a) | Each responsible seller in respect of whom a code number is registered or deemed to be registered in terms of this regulation shall annually on or before 31 October pay to the administering officer the prescribed fees in respect of the maintenance of that registration. |
[Regulation 40(5)(a) substituted by regulation 2(b) of Notice No. R. 678 of 2001)
| (b) | Such payment shall be accompanied by a written notice in which the name and address of the responsible seller concerned and the code number registered or deemed to be registered in respect of him are indicated. |
(6)
| (a) | The registration of a code number shall lapse if— |
| (i) | the fee payable in terms of subregulation (5) has not been paid as required in that subregulation; or |
| (ii) | the licence or authority in terms whereof the responsible seller concerned is authorized under the Liquor Act, 1989 (Act No. 27 of 1989), to sell liquor as defined in the said Act, has lapsed or has been withdrawn. |
| (b) | A code number the registration of which has lapsed as contemplated in paragraph (a) shall not within 10 years after the date of lapsing thereof be registered in respect of another responsible seller unless the administering officer is satisfied that such responsible seller is the successor in title of the responsible seller in respect of whom that code number was previously registered. |
| (7) | The administering officer shall— |
| (a) | keep a register of code numbers in a form determined by him; |
| (b) | in respect of each registered code number enter the name and address of the responsible seller concerned in such register; and |
| (c) | from time to time by notice in the Gazette publish a list of the particulars entered in such register, and of deletions from and additions to such register. |
