Trading Licences (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

L.N. 7 of 2007

TRADING LICENCES ACT

(CAP. 441)

Trading Licences (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 28 of the Trading

Licences Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and Communications

has made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Trading Licences Citation and

commencement.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2007 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Trading Licences Regulations, 2006 hereinafter referred

to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) Regulations 2 and 7 of these regulations shall be deemed

to have come into force on the 1 st January, 2006.

For the title “Trading Licences (Amendment) Regulations, Amends title of

principal

2006” in bold at the top of the index to the principal regulations and in regulations.

the beginning of the principal regulations themselves, there shall in

both cases be substituted the title “Trading Licences Regulations, 2006”.

In regulation 8 of the principal regulations, for paragraph (a) Amends regulation

8 of principal

of sub-regulation (1) thereof there shall be substituted the following>- regulations.

“(a) that the Trading Licence Unit finds no objection to the

issue of the licence>

(i) as applied for< or

(ii) subject to certain conditions as it may deem fit to

apply< or”.

In regulation 9 of the principal regulations, for the first and Amends regulation

9 of the principal

second provisos of sub-regualtion (2) thereof there shall be substituted regulations.

the following>-

“Provided that

(i) where the applicant fails to pay the licence fee within a

period of three months from notification, the application for the

issue of a licence shall no longer have any effect and should be

considered as withdrawn<

(ii) where the application refers to a licence for processing,

manufacturing or sale of food products or beverages, listed under

licence Category I under the First Schedule to these regulations or

the providing of storage space for such items as a commercial

service, the applicant shall also submit together with the licence

fee, a declaration issued by the health authority, stating that the

commercial premises comply with all sanitary and food safety

requirements, and the Unit shall not issue the licence unless such

declaration has been submitted<

(iii) where the application relates to the operation of a grain

silo the applicant shall also submit a certification of compliance

with the Plant Quarantine (Harmful Organisms) Regulations, 2004

by the Plant Health Department and any relevant regulations which

may from time to time be in force.”.

In regulation 50 of the principal regulations, immediately after

sub-paragraph (j) thereof there shall be added the following new

paragraph (k)>

“(k) the fee payable in relation to a licence for the storage

of grains shall be Lm100.”.

In the First Schedule to the principal regulations, in Licence

category V – Professional and Business Services, there shall be added

immediately after Type Code “63.11” and Type of Licence “Cargo

Handling”, the following Type Code and Type of Licence respectively>

“63.12

Storage and Warehousing”.

Immediately after regulation 54 of the principal regulations,

there shall be added the following new regulation>-

“Revokes

55. The Trading Licences Regulations, 2002 are hereby

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being repealed.”.

of 2002.

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