ACT No. XXXII of 1981 AN ACT to provide for the payment of excise duty on machine-made gold and silver articles_ BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament (dutydot)
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I assent.
(L.S.)
ANTON BUTTIGIEG
President
4th August, 1981
ACT No. XXXII of 1981
AN ACT to provide for the payment of excise duty on machine-made
gold and silver articles_
BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-
This Act may be cited as the Excise Duty (Gold and Silver
Articles) Act, 1981.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
"Comptroller" means the Comptroller of Customs, and, to the
extent of any delegati on made in accordance with the provisions
of section 4 of this Act, includes any person so delegated�
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Customs.
(l) There shall be charged and levied by the Comptroller
on account of the Government. on every artic1e of gold or silver
manufactured in Malta, principally by machinery, an excise duty at the
rate of fifty per centum of the value of such artic1e established in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section.
(2) The duty shall be charged on the value of the gold or
silver contained in such artic1e as established by the Consul for Gold
smiths and Silversmiths. Such value shall be equivalent to the value of
the gold 01' silver content in such artic1e calculated at the price for gold
or silver under the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Ordinance applicable on
the day in which such article is delivered to the Consul for valuation for
the purposes of this Act.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to coins
(3)
or medals
issued or manufactured by the Central Bank of Malta.
The Comptrol1er may, in writing and sub j ect to such !imita
tions as he may think fit. delegate to any officer serving in his depart
Comptroller.
ment, any of the rights, duties, powers and other functions vested,
conferred or imposed upon him by this Act.
The provisions of sections 20, 21. 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 and
provisions of
34 of the Excise Duty (Crown Corks and Non-a1coholic Concentrates)
Ordinance, J 961 shall apply mutatis mutandis.
( l) No duty paid under this Act on any gold or silver article
ref und abl e.
disposed of in Malta shall be refunded to the manufacturer thercof
Provided that a drawback of the duty paid in accordance with
the provisions of this Act shall be allowed in respect of duty on any
gold and silver artic1e on its exportation from Malta or transfer to a
Duty Free Shop licensed under the Duty Free Shop Regulations, 1 974.
(2)
The payment of drawbaek shall be subject -
(a) to the produetion of sueh documents and to the making
by the manufacturer of a written decIaration in sueh forn1 or
manner as the Comptroller may require; and
(b) to the fulfilling by the manufaeturer of sueh conditions
as the Minister may by regulations prescribe.
Every person who is in any way eoncerned in any fraudulent
duty.
evasion or attempt at evasion of duty leviable under this Act shall be
guilty of an offence and shall on convietion be liable to a fine (multa)
equivalent to the aggregate of the amount of duty payable on the goods
and double the value of the goods or to a fine (muLta) of twenty-flve
pounds whichever shall be the greater or to imprisonment for a term
not exeeeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment. The
forfeiture of the goods shall follow upon such eonviction.
Passed by the House of Representatives of Sitting No. 531 of the 29th July, 1981.
C.AGIUS
Speaker
C. MIFSUD
Clerk to the House of Representatives
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