Activities Requiring Permit by Local Councils

L.N. 474 of 2012

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

TRADING LICENCES ACT

(CAP. 441)

Activities Requiring Permit by Local Councils

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 34(2) of the Local

Councils Act and article 16 of the Trading Licences Act, the Prime

Minister and the Minister for Fair Competition, Small Business and

Consumers have, respectively, made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Activities Requiring Citation.

Permit by Local Councils (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Activities S.L. 441.04

Requiring Permit by Local Councils Regulations, hereinafter referred

to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 5 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

sub-regulation (8) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(8) (a) The authorisation is personal and

non-transferable.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions

of paragraph (a)

(i)

the Local Council shall

transfer the authorisation to the

substitute of the market hawker in

accordance with the Trading Licences

Regulations, if the relative licence to the

substitute has been issued by the

competent authority;

(ii) an authorisation in relation

to a market hawker operating at the

open-air market in Merchants Street,

Valletta, in Marsaxlokk (daily open-air

market except Sunday) and at It-Tokk,

Victoria, Gozo shall, at the request in

writing of the market-hawker holding

such authorisation, be transferred by the

Local Council to another individual;

(iii) an authorisation in relation

to any other market-hawker not

mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) shall, at

the request in writing of the market-

hawker holding such authorisation, also

be transferred by the Local Council to

any member of the market hawker’s

family being his wife or her husband,

mother, father, son, daughter, brother or

sister.

(c) The Local Council shall effect

the transfers mentioned in paragraph (b)

within one month from receipt of the request

in writing from the market-hawker.

(d) The provisions of sub-regulation

(7)(a), shall not apply to this sub-regulation.";

and

(b) in sub-regulation (11) thereof, immediately after the

words "any valid reason," there shall be added the words "which

shall include a request for transfer as provided for in sub-

regulation (8),".

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