S.L. 234.41 Art. 9Refusal to issue or renew a licence and cancellation of licence.

(1) The Registrar-General may refuse to issue or renew a licence or to authorise any change in its activities in terms of these regulations and, may cancel a licence so issued or renewed if it appears to him, after giving reasonable opportunity to the applicant or to the licensee, as the case may be, to make relevant representations, that the applicant organisation, or the licensee, as the case may be, does not qualify or no longer qualifies as a shipping organisation in terms of article 84Z of the Act, or if he has reason to believe that the applicant organisation cannot ensure due observance of the laws of Malta particularly those related to merchant shipping.

(2) The Minister may, in the interest of Maltese shipping or in the national interest, direct the Registrar-General not to issue a licence in terms of these regulations, or not to renew a licence issued in terms of these regulations, or to cancel such licence.

(3) Upon refusal, non-renewal or final cancellation of a licence and without prejudice to the provisions of regulation 11, the organisation shall no longer be entitled to operate as a shipping organisation and upon being so adviced by the Registrar-General, the organisation shall within thirty days take such steps as are required in order that it may in terms of article 84Z(6)(b) of the Act cease to be regulated by the company regulations made under subarticle (8) of the said article.