LOCAL LACE INDUSTRY REGULATIONS

LOCAL LACE INDUSTRY

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 441.01

LOCAL LACE INDUSTRY REGULATIONS

2nd February, 1938

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 55 of 1938, as amended by Government Notice

312 of 1938, and GOVERNMENT NOTICE 442 of 1946, consolidated.

The title of these regulations is Local Lace Industry

Regulations.

(Regulation 6)

Description of official labels

1. A circular label, three point eight centimetres in diameter

with scalloped border-light red ground with white Maltese Cross in

the centre and the words “Malta Lace” and “Linen” in white

lettering above and below the Maltese Cross respectively, and the

words “Inspected by the Government of Malta” round the border

also in white letters.

2. A circular label, three point eight centimetres in diameter

with scalloped border-blue ground with red Maltese Cross in the

centre and the words “Malta Lace” and “Cotton” in red letters

above and below the Maltese Cross respectively and the words

“Inspected by the Government of Malta” round the border also in

red letters.

3. Specimen of the official labels may be seen on application

at the office of Director of Trade, 2, Lascaris Wharf, Valletta.

(1) No person may, without the licence granted to him by

the Commissioner of Police, deal in articles of lace, whether by

wholesale or by retail.

(2) A licence granted under the provisions of article 194 of the

Code of Police Laws, shall not be deemed to authorise the licensee

to deal in articles of lace, unless it is so expressly stated in the

licence.

The licence, if granted in respect of a shop or place of

business, shall be exhibited in a frame in a prominent place in such

a shop or place of business. Intinerant vendors shall carry their

licence whenever they are engaged in their trade and shall produce

it on demand to any officer of the Police.

A printed copy of these Regulations shall be exhibited in a

frame in a conspicuous part of any shop or place of business in

respect of which a licence to deal in articles of lace has been issued.

Any person licensed to deal in articles of lace may, on

application to the Director of Trade, have such articles of lace

which are manufactured in Malta or Gozo, from linen or cotton

thread, labelled with the official label.

The labels described in the Schedule to these Regulations

shall be the only authorised labels to denote that an article of lace

which is manufactured in Malta or Gozo is made of linen or cotton

thread, as the case may be, and such labels may be affixed only by

the Director of Trade or his representative.

No article of lace manufactured from silk or artificial silk

thread shall be labelled by the Director of Trade.

Samples of Malta and Gozo lace shall be accessible to the

public at the office of the Director of Trade.

LOCAL LACE INDUSTRY