S.L. 128.3 чл. 2General condition of licence.

(1) Every licence -

(a) to open or keep any shop for the sale of any wares or merchandise, whether by wholesale or retail;

(b) to open or keep any shop for the exercise therein of any art or trade;

(c) to exercise the trade of hawker or pedlar;

(d) to keep in any premises any agency in connection with housing or travelling or in connection with any kind of trade, business or commerce; or

(e) to exercise in the street any craft, trade or calling, shall be issued, renewed or transferred subject to the condition that the licensee shall not -

(i) for gain or by way of trade, print, manufacture, duplicate or otherwise reproduce or copy, or sell, distribute or otherwise offer for sale or distribution from or on the premises covered by the licence, or as part of the activity covered by such licence, any article or other thing in violation of the rights of copyright enjoyed by any other person and protected by Maltese law;

(ii) suffer or permit any person to do any act or thing, as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) from or on the premises covered by the licence, or as part of the activity covered by such licence; or

(iii) conspire or attempt, or aid, abet, counsel or procure any other person, to do any act or thing as is mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii).

(2) Any licensee who contravenes or fails to comply with the condition set out in subregulation (1) shall, for the purposes of any law applicable in respect of any of the activities referred to in subregulation (1)(a) to (e), be deemed to be acting without the appropriate licence, and upon such contravention or failure the said licence shall moreover automatically expire: Provided that the Police shall not take any administrative or other action on the basis of the automatic expiry as aforesaid before the fact constituting the contravention or failure shall have been established in a final decision of a court.