ACT No. LXI of 2021 AN ACT to amend the Trading Licences Act, Cap. 441.

I assent.

(L.S.)

GEORGE VELLA

President

26th October, 2021

ACT No. LXI of 2021

AN ACT to amend the Trading Licences Act, Cap. 441.

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, 2021 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, establish, and

different dates may be so established for different provisions and

different purposes of this Act.

Article 17 of the principal Act shall be amended as follows

Amendment of

article 17 of the

principal Act.

(a) paragraph (a) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"(a) for prescribing the conditions under which

licences or any one or more categories or classes thereof

may be granted, renewed, suspended, transferred or

cancelled

Provided that in relation to open-air markets,

the Minister may, after consultation with the Minister

responsible for local government, issue regulations on the

criteria, conditions and procedures related to the transfer of

authorisations of market hawker stall spaces;";

(b) paragraph (k) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"(k) for prescribing actions which may be taken to

promote compliance with the legislation regulating open

markets;"; and

(c) immediately after paragraph (k) thereof there shall be

added the following new paragraph

"(l) for prescribing any matter considered necessary

or expedient for the better carrying out of any of the

provisions of this Act.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 500 of the

20th October, 2021.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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