Regulations, 2015

L.N. 229 of 2015

SUPPLIES AND SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 117)

Marketing of Agricultural Produce (Amendment)

Regulations, 2015

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 3 of the Supplies

and Services Act, the Minister for the Economy, Investment and

Small Business, in consultation with the Minister for Sustainable

Development, the Environment and Climate Change, has made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Marketing of

Agricultural Produce (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Marketing of

Agricultural Produce Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

Sub-regulations (3), (4) and (5) of regulation 5 of the

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

(a) Every pitkal who applies for the renewal of a

"(3)

licence after the 31st day of December of 2014 shall provide a

bank guarantee, equivalent to 10% of his previous year’s

turnover from the sales of agricultural produce.

(b) Applicants for the granting of a new licence

shall provide a bank guarantee, equivalent to 10% of the

previous year’s average total annual turnover from sales of

agricultural produce by all pitkali.

(c) The value of the guarantee shall be reviewed

by the Director on a yearly basis; and the said guarantee shall be

utilised by the Director in the event that the defaulting pitkal

does not pay his dues.

(4)

The fee leviable on the issue and on every renewal

of a pitkal licence shall be of fifty-one euro and thirty cents

(€51.30), and the fee leviable for the issue and every renewal of

a pitkal entry permit shall be seven euro and seventy cents

(€7.70).

(5)

The fee leviable on the issue of a greengrocer’s

licence shall be thirty-five cents (€0.35) and the fee leviable on

every renewal shall be twenty cents (€0.20), exclusive of the

payment in respect of the number plate prescribed in regulation

10(3).".

€0.09