Press Release: SME Chamber calls for strengthened trust and governance in Inquiries Reform
13 February 2025
The Malta Chamber of SMEs acknowledges the need for legal improvements in the proposed inquiries...
Trading Licences (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations, 2011
2. For sub-regulation (4) of regulation 34 of the principal regulations, there shall be substituted the following:
"(4) New licences for a commercial fair and licences already issued for a commercial fair shall be valid for seven consecutive days, including Sundays and Public Holidays, except Good Friday. Any commercial fair organised for more than seven consecutive days shall require a separate licence:
Provided that licenses issued consecutively for the same commercial fair in the same premises shall not exceed thirty days.".
3. For paragraph 07 in Part II of the Third Schedule to the principal regulations, there shall be substituted the following.
"07. Commercial Fair Activities.
In relation to any premises in respect of which a licence from the Trade Licensing Unit has been issued for the organisation of commercial fairs or in relation to a commercial fair requiring a permit, in both cases selling by retail or exhibit of goods, the fair may open for business between 9.00a.m. and 11.00p.m. on any day except Good Friday.".
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