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L.N. 2l of 1981

PORT DUES ORDINANCE (CAP. 160)

Port Dues (Amemlment) Regulations, 1980

IN e;(ercise of the po'vvers conferred by section 3 of the Port

Dues Ordinance, the Minister of Development, Energy, Port and Tele­

communications, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance,

Customs and People's Financial Investments, has made the following

regulations:-

(1) These re2:ulations may be cited as the Port Dues (Amend-

Citation and

ment) Regulations, 1980, and shall be read and construed as one with

the Port Dues Regulations, 1977, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

(2) These regulations shalI come into force on the t 5th d3Y

fol1owing the da te of their publication in the Gazette.

Paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the principal regulations

sha11 be amended as follows:-

(a) for the words "fifty per centum" in hem (i) of sub­

paragraph (1) (b) thereof, there sha11 be substituted the words

"fifty-five per centum";

(b) for the words "seventy-five per centum" in sub-paragraph

(1) (c) thereof, there shaH be substituted the words "eighty per

centum"; and

(C) immediately after sub-paragraph (f) thereof, there shaH

be added the fo1Jowing new sub-paragraph

"(g) the c1ues payable by vessels calIing at any port to

load or unJoad goods shall be at the rate of ten per centum

over the dues specified in the said paragraph (2),".

For the Second Schedu1e to the p1incipaJ

regu]ations

there

shaB be substituted the following new Schedule:-

"SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 3 (2)

Port dues payable in respect of laid-up vessels

l. (l) Laid-up vessels, whether registered in Malta Of otherwise,

shaH pay port dues as follows

;(4.50 per vessel for every

(a)

vessels

not

exceeding

period of seven days Of part

10 tons

thereof

(bI vessels

exceeding

f9 per vessel for every period

of seven

days

part

01'

ton5 but not exceeding 50 tmw

thereof

(c) vesseIs

exceeding

:t13.50 per vessel ror every

period of seven days 01' part

tons but not exceeding 100 ton8

thereof

:El8 per vesseI for every period

(d) vessels exceeding

tons but not exceeding 500

tons

of seven days Of part thereof.

Laid-up vessels exceeding 500 tons shall pay port dues

(2)

as fol1ows

.f15 for every 500 tons or part

not

exceeding

(a) vesse]s

2000 tons

thereof in respect of every

period of seven days or part

thereof

(b)

vessels

exceeding

tons -

f.75 in respect of every period

for the first 2000 tons

of

seven

days

part

01'

thereof

f.7.50

for every 1000 tons Of par t

in respect of every

thereof in excess of 2000 tons

period of seven days 01' part

thereof.

2. If the net registered tonnage of a vessel is not known to or

cannot be established by the Director of Ports, he may appoint one or

rnore surveyors at the expense of the person Of persons l1able to pay

port dues to determine the net registered tonnage of that vessel.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph l of this Schedule,

any vessel, whether registered in lVlalta Of otherwise, which is laid-up

without the permession of the Director of Ports sha11 pay the port dues

specified in paragraph l of this Schedule increased by one hundred per

centum.".

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