BOATMEN’S FEES REGULATIONS

BOATMEN’S FEES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 73.01

BOATMEN’S FEES REGULATIONS

16th September, 1957

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 572 of 1957, as amended by Legal Notice 408

of 2007.

The title

of

these

regulations

is

Boatmen’s

Fees

Regulations.

The agent of any ship, the passengers whereof have

embarked or disembarked by means other than dg]ajsas shall not

later than twenty-four hours after the departure of the ship, furnish

to the Comptroller of Customs a return showing the number of

passengers so embarked or disembarked within each whole day

during which the ship remained in harbour, with particulars in

respect of each passenger as to whether he has embarked only or

disembarked only or both.

A fee of four cents (0.04) in respect of each passenger so

embarking or disembarking and of eight cents (0.08) in respect of

each passenger so embarking and disembarking or disembarking

and embarking in any one day shall be charged and the total amount

due shall be paid by the ship agent to the Comptroller of Customs at

the time of his furnishing the return referred to in regulation 2, with

a deduction of five per cent on the aforesaid amount, which the ship

agent may retain as a remuneration for his services.

The Comptroller of Customs shall, every six months, pay

to a representative of the boatmen licensed to ply their trade in the

Grand Harbour and Marsamxett Harbour any moneys accrued to

him from the payment of the fees referred to in regulation 3 and it

shall be the responsibility of such representative to distribute the

aforesaid moneys in equal proportions among the boatmen duly

licensed as aforesaid during the relevant period.