Duty Free Shop (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

L.N. 313 of 2012

IMPORT DUTIES ACT

(CAP. 337)

Duty Free Shop (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 16 and 35 of the

Import Duties Act, the Minister of Finance, the Economy and

Investment has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Duty Free Shop

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Duty Free Shop Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

For the definition "entitled passengers" in regulation 2 of

the principal regulations, there shall be substituted the following new

defintion

" "entitled passengers" means persons about to board an air

or sea craft for a destination outside the European Union or

persons arriving from a place outside the European Union, but

does not include members of crews of such crafts except when

travelling out of uniform and/or as ordinary passengers and any

other person who in the opinion of the Comptroller is not

entitled under the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for

Touring

Provided that the Comptroller may allow the purchase of

duty free goods by members of crews of such sea craft departing

for a destination outside Malta under such terms and conditions

as he may determine to ensure the necessary controls and the

safeguarding of revenue;".

The proviso to sub-regulation (2) of regulation 3 of the

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new

proviso

"Provided that it shall be lawful for the Comptroller to

refuse to grant a new licence, and at any time to revoke any

licence granted or renewed under these regulations.".

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