POTATO (CULTIVATION) ORDINANCE * (cultivation)

P O TATO ( C U LT I VAT I O N )

CHAPTER 64

POTATO (CULTIVATION) ORDINANCE *

†

To make provision for the better cultivation of potatoes and other

purposes connected therewith.

(20th September, 1930) ‡

Enacted by ORDINANCE XIV of 1930, as amended by Ordinance III of

1935, and Legal Notice 4 of 1963.

*

This Ordinance may be cited as the Potato (Cultivation)

Ordinance.

The Minister responsible for agriculture shall have power

to make, and when made, amend, vary or revoke regulations for all

or any of the following purposes

(a) for forbidding the importation of seed-potatoes not

conforming to requirements;

(b) for providing for the proper cultivation of potatoes;

(c) for regulating the exercise of the trade of potato-

broker and for fixing the brokerage fees.

Any person who commits a breach of any regulation made

under this Ordinance shall be guilty of a contravention and shall be

liable on conviction to the punishments established in the Criminal

Code for contraventions.

*This Ordinance has been repealed by Act XV of 2025.

†The titles have been altered in view of the fact that those provisions of the Ordinance

which applied to the export of potatoes have been repealed by original article 20 of

Ordinance No. III of 1935, (now Chapter 85 of the Revised Edition) which article had

been omitted under the Malta Statute Law Revision Ordinance, 1936.

‡See Proclamation No. XXII of the 20th of September, 1930.