          POTATO (CULTIVATION)      [ CAP. 64.   1
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.
Short title.* 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Potato (Cultivation)
Ordinance.
Power of Minister 
responsible for 
agriculture to make 
regulations. 
Amended by: 
L.N. 4 of 1963.
2. 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.
Offences and 
penalties. 
Cap. 9.
3. 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.
*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which applied to the export of potatoes have been repealed by original section 20 of
Ordinance No. III of 1935, (now Chapter 85 of the Revised Edition) which section had
been omitted under the Malta Statute Law Revision Ordinance, 1936.
† See  Proclamation No. XXII of the 20th of September, 1930.
