BAKERS’ LICENCES REGULATIONS

BAKERS’ LICENCES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 117.24

BAKERS’ LICENCES REGULATIONS

19th January, 1980

LEGAL NOTICE 2 of 1980, as amended by Legal Notice 409 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Bakers’ Licences

Regulations.

In

these

regulations,

unless

the

context

otherwise

requires -

"bread seller" means a person who sells, distributes or delivers

bread to the public;

"baker" means a person who produces or manufactures bread for

sale to the public, or who employs or makes any arrangements with

any other person to produce or manufacture bread for such sale;

"licence" means a licence issued under these regulations, and

"licensed" shall be construed accordingly;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for trade and includes,

to the extent of the authority given, any person authorised by the

Minister in that behalf for any purpose of these regulations.

(1) No person shall act as a baker or as a bread seller

unless he is in possession of a licence issued by the Minister

authorising him so to act.

(2) No baker shall produce or manufacture any bread which is

not of the type which he is licensed under these regulations to

produce or manufacture; and no bread seller shall sell, distribute or

deliver any bread which is not of the type which he is licensed

under these regulations to sell, distribute or deliver.

(3) Any such licence shall remain valid for the period for

which it is issued or renewed, or until it is withdrawn by the

Min ister, wh ich ever is the earl ier dat e; and if no perio d is

mentioned in the licence or in any renewal thereof it shall, unless it

is earlier withdrawn as aforesaid, expire at the end of one year from

its issue or renewal.

(4) The Minister may, in issuing such a licence, attach thereto

any condition or conditions as he may deem fit.

(5) The Minister 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.

(6) A licence issued by the Minister under these regulations

shall not exempt the holder from the requirement of having any

other licence under any other law.

(1) Every baker and every bread seller shall, during normal

selling hours for bread, have available for sale to the public

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reasonable quantities of the types of bread in respect of which he is

licensed under these regulations, in such types and weights as may

be specified by the Minister in the licence or by order in the

Gazette.

(2) No baker and no bread seller shall sell bread at a price

exceeding that fixed from time to time under the Control on the

Sale of Commodities Regulations.

(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with

any of these regulations or any condition attached to any licence

issued under these regulations shall be guilty of an offence against

these regulations and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine

(multa) of not less than one hundred and sixteen euros and forty-

seven cents (116.47) but not exceeding four hundred and sixty-five

euros and eighty-seven cents (465.87) or to imprisonment for a

period of from fifteen days to two months or to both such fine and

imprisonment. The Court shall, moreover, on conviction, cancel the

relative licence of the offender.

(2) Offences against these regulations shall be deemed to be

contraventions

Provided that proceedings in respect of an offence against

these regulations may be commenced at any time within one year

from the commission of the offence.