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CONTROL OF SALE OF PIGS FOR SLAUGHTERING AND OF PORK REGULATIONS *
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
CONTROL OF SALE OF PIGS FOR SLAUGHTERING AND PORK
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 117.22
CONTROL OF SALE OF PIGS FOR
SLAUGHTERING AND OF PORK REGULATIONS *
2nd July, 1975
LEGAL NOTICE 78 of 1975, as amended by Legal Notices 76 of 1990
and 409 of 2007, and Act XIII of 2015.
The title of these regulations is the Control of Sale of Pigs
for Slaughtering and of Pork Regulations.
In
these
regulations,
unless
the
context
otherwise
requires -
"sale" means any disposal under any onerous or gratuitous title;
"retailer" means any person who purchases pigs and/or pork for
sale by retail;
"wholesaler" means any person who purchases pigs and/or pork
and sells them to third parties;
"Director" means the Director of Agriculture;
"distributor" means any person licensed under these Regulations
to purchase pork from the government abattoir on behalf of
retailers and to transport pork from the government abattoir to
retail shops;
"manufacturer" means any person who processes pigs and/or
pork for disposal to third parties;
"producer" means any person who keeps, breeds or fattens pigs
for disposal thereof;
"purchase" means any acquisition made under any onerous or
gratuitous title.
The Director may from time to time by order in the Gazette
fix minimum prices at which wholesalers, retailers, and
manufacturers may purchase pigs and/or pork from any producer
and specify the conditions under which such prices are to apply.
(1) Any sale or purchase of pigs and/or pork by any
producer, wholesaler, retailer, distributor or manufacturer shall be
accompanied by a duly receipted bill which shall be shown on
demand to the Director or to any other person acting on his behalf.
(2) No such receipted bill shall be destroyed before the lapse of
three months from the date of the relative purchase or sale.
(1) No person shall act as a distributor unless he is in
possession of a licence issued by the Director authorising him so to
act.
*These regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 249 of 2022.
CONTROL OF SALE OF PIGS FOR SLAUGHTERING AND PORK
(2) Any such licence shall remain valid for the period for
which it is issued or renewed, or until it is withdrawn by the
Director, whichever is the earliest date; and if no period is
mentioned in the licence or in any renewal thereof it shall, unless it
is earlier withdrawn as aforesaid, expire on the 31st day of
December of the year of its issue or renewal.
(3) The Director may, in issuing such a licence, attach thereto
any condition or conditions as he may deem fit.
(4) The Director shall have the right at any time to withdraw
any licence issued under these regulations, and in particular if he is
satisfied that any of the conditions of the licence have not been
observed.
(5) A licence issued by the Director under these regulations
shall not exempt the holder from the requirement of having any
other licence under any other law.
The annual fee leviable for the first issue of a distributor’s
licence shall be twelve euro and ninety cents (€12.90), and the
annual fee leviable on every renewal of such licence shall be seven
euro and seventy cents (€7.70).
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of these
Regulations or of any order made thereunder shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable -
(a) an a first conviction to a fine (multa) of not less than
one hundred and sixteen euros and forty-seven cents
(116.47) but not exceeding six hundred and ninety-
eight euros and eighty-one cents (698.81), and
(b) on a second or subsequent conviction, to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding three months and to a fine
(multa) of not less than two hundred and thirty-two
euros and ninety-four cents (232.94) but not exceeding
six hundred and ninety-eight euros and eighty-one
cents (698.81), and the Court shall, at the instance of
the prosecution, suspend for a period not exceeding six
months any licence held by the offender in connection
with the transaction carried out by him.