Marketing of Agricultural Produce (Amendment) Regulations, 2015 (L.N. 229 of 2015)

B 2106 Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment tal-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta Mitbugħ fl-Istamperija tal-Gvern fuq karta riċiklata — Printed at the Government Printing Press on recycled paper Prezz/Price €0.09 B 2106 L.N. 229 of 2015 SUPPLIES AND SERVICES ACT (CAP. 117) Marketing of Agricultural Produce (Amendment) Regulations, 2015 IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 3 of the Supplies and Services Act, the Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business, in consultation with the Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change, has made the following regulations: Citation. S.L. 117.04 1. The title of these regulations is the Marketing of Agricultural Produce (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Marketing of Agricultural Produce Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations". Amends regulation 5 of the principal regulations. 2. Sub-regulations (3), (4) and (5) of regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the following: "(3) (a) Every pitkal who applies for the renewal of a licence after the 31st day of December of 2014 shall provide a bank guarantee, equivalent to 10% of his previous year’s turnover from the sales of agricultural produce. (b) Applicants for the granting of a new licence shall provide a bank guarantee, equivalent to 10% of the previous year’s average total annual turnover from sales of agricultural produce by all pitkali. (c) The value of the guarantee shall be reviewed by the Director on a yearly basis; and the said guarantee shall be utilised by the Director in the event that the defaulting pitkal does not pay his dues. (4) The fee leviable on the issue and on every renewal of a pitkal licence shall be of fifty-one euro and thirty cents (€51.30), and the fee leviable for the issue and every renewal of a pitkal entry permit shall be seven euro and seventy cents (€7.70). (5) The fee leviable on the issue of a greengrocer’s licence shall be thirty-five cents (€0.35) and the fee leviable on every renewal shall be twenty cents (€0.20), exclusive of the payment in respect of the number plate prescribed in regulation 10(3).". VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA