SHOPS BUSINESS HOURS (TOURIST LOCALITY) REGULATIONS * (touristlocality)

SHOPS BUSINESS HOURS (TOURIST LOCALITY)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 441.03

SHOPS BUSINESS HOURS (TOURIST LOCALITY)

REGULATIONS *

25th May, 1993

LEGAL NOTICE 71 of 1993, as amended by Legal Notices 51 and 140 of

1995, 34 of 1996 and 166 of 1999.

The title of these regulations is Shops Business Hours

(Tourist Locality) Regulations.

Amended by

L.N. 51 of 1995;

L.N. 140 of 1995.

(Regulation 4)

L.N. 166 of 1999.

Tourist Localities

Malta

Bir\ebbu[ia

Bu[ibba

G\ira

Marsascala

Marsaxlokk

Mdina

Mellie]a

Msida

Paceville

Qawra

Rabat

Senglea

Sliema

St. Andrews

St. Julians

St. Paul’s Bay

Ta’ Xbiex

Valletta

Vittoriosa

Wied i\-|urrieq

Xemxija

Gozo

Marsalforn

M[arr

Victoria

Xlendi

In

these

regulations,

unless

the

context

otherwise

requires -

"Act" means the Shops and Hawkers (Business Hours) Act † ;

"shop" means any premises where goods are sold or services

offered to the public in any of the following activities -

(a) the sale of bona fide souvenirs;

(b) the sale of books, articles of stationery, postal stamps,

photographic goods, and video, radio and television

electronic recording equipment;

(c) the sale of tobacco, matches, drinks, sweets, items of

confectionery, ice-creams and take-away foods;

(d) lending libraries including video rentals;

(e) shops connected with the hire of cars, boats or vessels

and the offering of pleasure cruises or holiday

excursions;

(f)

restaurants and bars;

(g) shops connected with services given by barbers and

hairdressers;

(h) jewellers’ shops

Provided that where in such shops more than one class of

items or services is offered to the public, the class of items or

services constituting the main activity shall be deemed to be the

activity of the shop for the purposes of these regulations.

The provisions of these regulations shall not apply to

vehicles of hawkers, mobile structures and dispensaries.

The localities indicated in the Schedule are to be

considered as tourist localities in terms of article 10(3) of the Act.

*But see the Trading Licences Regulations - S.L. 441.07

†Repealed by the Trading Licences Act - Cap. 441.

SHOPS BUSINESS HOURS (TOURIST LOCALITY)

(1)

The provisions of articles 6, 7 and 9 of the Act shall not

apply -

(a) to any shop situated in Valletta during any day when a

passenger liner is in Grand Harbour; and

(b) to any shop in any tourist locality during the period

between the 1st March and the 31st October (both

dates inclusive)

Provided that -

(i)

any shop in any tourist locality, other than a

shop in Valletta, shall close not later than 1.00

p.m on any Sunday or public holiday and not

later than 10.00 p.m. on any other day; and

(ii) all shops in Valletta shall close not later than

00p.m. f ’kull [urnata o]ra, jew f ’xi nofs ta’ nhar li soltu ma

ja]dimx fih, jew wara l-]inijiet ordinarji tal-]anut kif stabbiliti bil-

kondizzjonijiet ta’ l-impieg mag]rufin kif japplikaw g]al dak l-

impjegat, jekk mhux bil-kunsens ta’ l-impjegat innifsu

I\da meta impjegat full-time jag]ti l-kunsens tieg]u, huwa

jkun jista’ jit]addem barra mill-]inijiet stabbiliti preskritti fis-

subreg olament (1), u g] and u jit] al las b ir-rati tas-sahra kif

japplikaw skond il-kuntratt tax-xog]ol tieg]u mag]ruf.

}INIJIET TAX-XOG}OL TAL-}WIENET LI JINSABU

F’LOKALITÀ TURISTIKA

00 p.m. on any day when a passenger liner is

in Grand Harbour and not later than 1.00 p.m. on

any Sunday or public holiday other than a day

when a passenger liner is in Grand Harbour; and

(iii) subject to the provisions contained in article 11

of the Act, all shops connected with the hire of

cars, boats or vessels and the offering of

pleasure cruises or holiday excursions, shall

close not later than 10.00 p.m. on any day.

(2) The exemptions of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation

shall apply subject to the conditions that no full-time employee

shall be employed on Sundays or public holidays or after 7.00 p.m.

on any other day, or during any half-day off, or after the ordinary

hours of the shop as laid down in the recognised conditions of

employment applicable to such employee, without the consent of

the employee himself

Provided that when any full-time employee gives his

consent, he may be employed outside the established times set out

in sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, and he shall be remunerated

at the overtime rates applicable according to the recognised

conditions of employment.

SHOPS BUSINESS HOURS (TOURIST LOCALITY)