Cap. 41 Art. 11Power to grant special licence for purposes of scientific research, etc.

(1) The Comptroller may, with the sanction of the Minister responsible for customs and subject to the regulations, grant a special licence to keep and use a still to any person, for the purpose of scientific research, or to any apothecary or other person but only for the preparation, in the exercise of his profession or trade, of medicines or other articles required for medicinal purposes, or as the case may be, of the articles manufactured by such other person.

(2) Any person to whom such special licence is granted shall not be deemed to be a distiller and shall not be subject to the provisions of Parts II to V.

(3) Every such licence shall expire on the 31st December of the year in which it is issued.

(4) The Minister responsible for customs may, at any time, in his discretion, cancel any such licence. exceeding five litres.

(2) The same rule shall apply to any distiller or holder of a licence granted as aforesaid in respect of any building or place to which his licence does not extend.

(3) Every person making, keeping or having in his possession any wash, low wines or feints in contravention of this article shall be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding one hundred and sixteen euros and forty-seven cents (116.47).