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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 37.10
CONTROL AT AIRPORT CUSTOMS REGULATIONS
5th April, 1994
LEGAL NOTICE 42 of 1994. 
Title.
Customs Regulations.
Interpretation.
otherwise requires -
"aircraft" means any aircraft flying, or intended by the operator
to fly, for the purpose of aerial work;
"airport" and "customs airport" mean that area designated for the
arrival and departure of aircraft, persons, goods and mail, including
all buildings and sheds enclosed within the perimeter fence;
"approved" means approved by the Minister;
"crew" includes any person having any duty to perform in an
aircraft;
"commander" means the person having or taking the charge or
command of an aircraft;
"Comptroller" means the Comptroller of Customs;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for customs;
"officer" means an officer of customs; 
"proper officer" means the appropriate customs officer at the
airport;
"examination station" means a part of, or a place or a space at a
customs airport which is approved as an examination station.
Arrival from 
abroad.
3. Upon the arrival from abroad of an aircraft, the commander
shall forthwith deliver to the proper officer - 
(i) the documents constituting the clearance
outwards of the aircraft from the airport which it
last left and, if so required by the officer, the
journey log book belonging to the aircraft,
(ii) a manifest in duplicate in an approved form of
the goods on board the aircraft,
(iii) a passenger manifest in an approved form
containing the names of all passengers carried in
the aircraft and their places of embarkation and
destination.
Importation of 
goods.
4. (1) No person who shall import or bring, or be concerned
in importing or bringing, any goods into Malta in any aircraft shall,
without the special permission in writing of the Comptroller -
( a ) unload the goods or allow the same to be unloaded
from the aircraft in which they were imported except
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at an examination station, or before the report
mentioned in paragraph (ii) of regulation 3 has been
delivered and the consent of the proper officer to such
unloading has been obtained, or
( b ) remove the goods from an examination station without
the authority of the proper officer, except in
accordance with any special permission granted by the
Comptroller and in compliance with any conditions
attached to any such permission.
(2) The importer of any goods of which delivery has not been
permitted by the proper officer shall deposit the same in an
approved transit shed at the airport at which they were imported,
and, for the purposes of the enactments relating to Customs, any
goods so deposited shall, until the same shall have been duly
entered in accordance with those enactments, be deemed to be
goods still on board the importing aircraft.
(3) No person shall, without the permission of the proper
officer, remove any goods from any transit shed.
(4) Imported goods are to be conveyed from the aircraft in
which they were imported to the examination station without delay
and in such manner as the Comptroller may, from time to time,
direct.
Departure for 
abroad.
5. (1) Before any aircraft shall depart for a place abroad, the
commander shall deliver to the proper officer the following
documents -
( a ) a notice of intended departure and application for
clearance in duplicate in an approved form;
( b ) a manifest in duplicate in an approved form of the
goods on board the aircraft;
( c ) a passenger manifest in an approved form containing
the names of all passengers carried in the aircraft and
their places of embarkation and destination,
and the said documents, when signed by the said officer, shall, for
the purpose of the laws relating to Customs, be the clearance and
authority for the aircraft to proceed from that airport.
(2) The commander of an aircraft departing for a place abroad
shall not permit any goods, stores or passengers to be laden or
taken on board the aircraft before he has delivered to the proper
officer a notice of intended departure and application for clearance
in accordance with paragraph ( a ) of sub-regulation (1) of this
regulation.
(3) The exporter of any goods intended for exportation in an
aircraft shall deliver to the proper officer of customs at the airport
from which such aircraft is cleared to its foreign destination, an
entry in the form prescribed by the Comptroller and shall truly state
in such form the particulars thereby required; and such form, when
signed by the proper officer of Customs, shall be the clearance and
authority for the exportation of such goods.
(4) No person in any aircraft leaving Malta shall carry or allow
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to be carried in the aircraft any goods the exportation of which is
prohibited by any law for the time being in force in Malta.
Exportation of 
goods.
6. No person shall, without the permission of the proper
officer, unload from any aircraft any goods laden therein which
have been cleared for exportation.
Inspection, 
records, etc.
7. (1) It shall be permissible for an officer of Customs at any
time to enter upon and inspect the airport and all buildings and
goods thereon.
(2) The commander of an aircraft shall permit an officer of
Customs at any time to board the aircraft and to inspect the aircraft
and any goods laden therein and all documents relating to the
aircraft or to goods or persons carried therein, and an officer shall
have the right of access at any time to any place to which access is
required for the purpose of such inspection.
(3) An aircraft shall not enter or leave Malta having any secret
or disguised place adapted for concealing goods.
Documents.
document to be delivered as required by these Regulations full and
true particulars in accordance with the requirements specified in
that document.
Authorised agents. 
by these Regulations may be carried out on his behalf by a duly
authorised agent of the owner or operator of the aircraft.
Modifications by 
Minister.
10. In so far as it may be necessary to meet the circumstances
of any special case or class of cases, the Minister may modify the
application of anything in these Regulations, subject to such
conditions as he may direct. 
General 
provisions.
Cap. 37.
Cap. 337.
11. (1) The provisions of the Customs Ordinance and of
regulations made thereunder, and of the Import Duties Act, in so far
as they are applicable, shall apply to aircraft and to goods, mails
and persons carried in or landed from them as they apply to ships
and to goods, mails and persons carried in or landed from ships.
(2) The Comptroller may modify the form of any document
prescribed by the above Acts, Ordinances and regulations so as to
make such form applicable to aircraft or to goods carried therein.
Cap. 37.
Cap. 337.
(3) These Regulations shall in no way affect any proceedings
already taken before the coming into force of these Regulations in
so far as such proceedings were covered directly by the Import
Duties Act and the Customs Ordinance.
Penalties.
Cap. 37.
12. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of
these Regulations shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine ( multa )
not exceeding two hundred liri, unless such contravention, if
committed in any other place outside the airport, would be liable to
a higher punishment in terms of the Customs Ordinance, in which
case such other higher punishment shall apply.
