   EXPORTATION OF CERTAIN ARTICLES (PROHIBITION) ġ CAP. 24.             1
CHAPTER 24
EXPORTATION OF CERTAIN ARTICLES 
(PROHIBITION) ORDINANCE
To authorize the Minister responsible for the Police to prohibit in
certain cases the exportation of certain articles.
(20th February, 1889) *
Enacted by ORDINANCE IV of 1889 as amended by Legal Notice 46 of
1965 and Acts: LVIII of 1974, VIII of 1982 and XIII of 1983.
Short title.
Articles (Prohibition) Ordinance.
Power of Minister 
responsible for the 
Police to prohibit, 
in certain cases, the 
exportation or 
carriage of certain 
goods.  
Amended by: 
L.N. 46 of 1965; 
VIII.1982.2; 
XIII.1983.5.
2. (1) It shall be lawful for the Minister responsible for the
Police, whenever he shall deem it expedient, for the security and
defence of Malta, to prohibit, by a notice to be published in the
Government Gazette, the following goods to be exported or carried
coastwise: arms, ammunition and gunpowder, military and naval
stores and any articles which the Minister responsible for the Police
shall judge capable of being converted into, or made useful in
increasing the quantity of, military or naval stores, provisions or
any sort of victual, which may be used as food for man.
(2) Where any goods so prohibited are exported or brought to
any quay or other place to be shipped for exportation from Malta,
or carried coastwise, or are water-borne to be so exported or
carried, they shall be forfeited, and the exporter or his agent or the
shipper of any such goods shall be liable to the penalty of one
hundred liri.
Forfeiture takes 
place  ipso jure  in 
default of claim 
within eight days 
from issue of a 
notice.
3 . (1) The forfeiture referred to in the last preceding section,
shall take place  ipso jure , without the necessity of any judicial
procedure, whenever, within eight days from the date of the
publication of a notice signed by the Commissioner of Police, no
one shall have, by a judicial or other letter addressed to the said
Commissioner, claimed the goods seized.
(2) The said notice shall specify the goods seized by indicating
the marks or other external signs which they may bear, and shall
state the reason of the seizure thereof; it shall further state that, in
default of any claim being preferred by a judicial or other letter
addressed to the Commissioner of Police within eight days from the
date of the notice, the goods shall be forfeited. Such notice shall be
published in the Government Gazette and a copy shall be posted up
at the door of the principal Police Station in Valletta.
* See  Proclamation No. III of 1889.
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Proceedings for 
recovery of penalty 
and for forfeiture. 
Amended by: 
L.N. 46 of 1965; 
LVIII.1974.68.
4. It shall be lawful for the Attorney General, on behalf of the
Government, to sue before the competent court for the recovery of
the penalty referred to in section 2, as well as for the forfeiture of
goods seized under this Ordinance whenever legal proceedings
shall be necessary for that purpose.
