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CHAPTER 13
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To amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Trade.
ORDINANCES XIII of 1857, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII and XIX of 1858 and II of 1898, and
ACTS: XIV and XXIX of 1933* - as amended by Ordinances: III of 1863, VII of 1868, V of
1904; Acts: XV of 1924, XXX of 1927, XII of 1929; Ordinances: XXX of 1931, XXXVII of 1939
and VII of 1941 - Consolidated.
The Code was subsequently amended by Ordinances: XVIII of 1944, XIII of 1946, X and
XXV of 1962; Legal Notices 4 of 1963 and 46 of 1965; Acts: XXXI of 1966, XI and XLVI of
1973 and LVIII of 1974; Legal Notice l48 of 1975; Acts: XXII of 1976, XLIX of 1981, IX and
XVI of 1982, XIII of 1983, XXXVII of 1988, VIII and XXXIII of 1990, XXIV of 1995, XVI of 2000,
XXXI of 2002, IX of 2003 and XXII of 2005; Legal Notices 233 of 2005, 181 of 2006 and 407 of
2007; Acts II and XIII of 2008, and XXIII of 2009; and Legal Notices 272 of 2012 and 13 of 2014
and Acts XXIII of 2022 and XXXIV of 2025.
*(2nd October, 1857) *
(21st December, 1859) †
(26th April, 1898) ‡
(12th May, 1939) §
(3rd August, 1933) **
*See Proclamation No. XXI of the 2nd of October, 1857.
†See Proclamation No. XII of the 2lst of December, 1859.
‡See Proclamation No. II of the 26th of April, 1898.
§See Proclamation No. XXV of the 12th of May, 1939.
**See Act No. V of 1927 omitted under the Statute Law Revision Ordinance, 1936, and Government Notice.
No. 266 of the l8th of July, 1933
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