S.L. 653.3 Art. 15Offences and penalties.

(1) Any person in Malta, or any citizen or permanent resident of Malta, whether in Malta or elsewhere, who -

(a) exports items from Malta by virtue of an authorization granted by the Director, or the Community general export authorization, and fails to comply with any condition attaching to that authorization, or

(b) contravenes any of these regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years or to a fine (multa) not exceeding one hundred and sixteen thousand and four hundred and sixty-eight euro and sixty-seven cents (116,468.67).

(2) No person is guilty of an offence under subregulation (1)(a) where:

(a) as the case may be:

(i) the condition in question had been previously modified without that person’s consent by the Director;

(ii) in the case of the Community general export authorization the condition in question had been previously modified;

(b) the alleged failure to comply would not have been a failure had the authorization, or the Community general export authorization not been so modified; and

(c) that person proves that the items in relation to which he has failed to comply with the condition had, at the time the condition was modified, already been exported. SCHEDULE

(Regulation 4(3) and (4))

Authorization Application Form