POLICE LICENCES AND THE PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS

POLICE LICENCES AND THE PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 128.03

POLICE LICENCES AND THE PROTECTION OF

COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS

1st January, 1993

LEGAL NOTICE 120 of 1992.

The title of these Regulations is the Police Licences and

the Protection of Copyright Regulations.

(1)

Every licence -

(a) to open or keep any shop for the sale of any wares or

merchandise, whether by wholesale or retail;

(b) to open or keep any shop for the exercise therein of

any art or trade;

(c) to exercise the trade of hawker or pedlar;

(d) to keep in any premises any agency in connection with

housing or travelling or in connection with any kind of

trade, business or commerce; or

(e) to exercise in the street any craft, trade or calling,

shall be issued, renewed or transferred subject to the condition that

the licensee shall not -

(i)

for gain or by way of trade, print, manufacture,

duplicate or otherwise reproduce or copy, or

sell, distribute or otherwise offer for sale or

distribution from or on the premises covered by

the licence, or as part of the activity covered by

such licence, any article or other thing in

violation of the rights of copyright enjoyed by

any other person and protected by Maltese law;

(ii) suffer or permit any person to do any act or

thing, as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) from

or on the premises covered by the licence, or as

part of the activity covered by such licence; or

(iii) conspire or attempt, or aid, abet, counsel or

procure any other person, to do any act or thing

as is mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii).

(2) Any licensee who contravenes or fails to comply with the

condition set out in subregulation (1) shall, for the purposes of any

law applicable in respect of any of the activities referred to in

subregulation (1)(a) to (e), be deemed to be acting without the

appropriate licence, and upon such contravention or failure the said

licence shall moreover automatically expire

Provided that the Police shall not take any administrative or

other action on the basis of the automatic expiry as aforesaid before

the fact constituting the contravention or failure shall have been

established in a final decision of a court.