ACT No. XIII of 2011 AN ACT to amend the Trading Licences Act to extend the offences and penalties relative to retail outlets selling alcoholic beverages.

I assent.

G EORGE A BELA

(L.S.)

President

26th July, 2011

ACT No. XIII of 2011

AN ACT to amend the Trading Licences Act to extend the

offences and penalties relative to retail outlets selling alcoholic

beverages.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

(1) The short title of this Act is the Trading Licences Short title and

(Amendment) Act, 2011, and this Act shall be read and construed as commencement.

one with the Trading Licences Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Cap. 441.

principal Act".

(2) This Act shall come into force on such date as the Minister

responsible for commerce may by notice in the Gazette appoint.

Article 18 of the principal Act shall be amended as Amendment of

article 18 of the

follows

principal Act.

(a) the present article shall be renumbered as sub-article

(1) thereof; and

(b) immediately after sub-article (1) thereof, as re-

numbered, there shall be added the following new sub-article

"(2) The Minister may make regulations

establishing offences and the relative punishments in

relation to contraventions involving the sale of alcohol,

which punishments shall not exceed a fine (multa) of

twenty thousand euro (20,000) and, or, the revocation of

the licence.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 384 of the

19th July, 2011.

M ICHAEL F RENDO

Speaker

P AULINE A BELA

Clerk to the House of Representatives