S.L. 425.2 Art. 18Deductions.

(1) When making payment in terms of regulation 17, the

Director shall deduct an amount equivalent to six point three per cent or ten per cent from the amounts due to the fisherman or to the importer respectively, and except for the provisions of regulation

21, the amount to be paid to the pitkal as remuneration for his services shall in both cases be six point three per cent on the amount of the registered sales.

(2) The Director shall deduct from the amounts due to the any amount due by any retailer for fish sold to such retailer pitkal by such pitkal.

(3) Where the amount due by retailers for fish sold to them by a is more than the amount due to such the Director pitkal pitkal, may notify the to pay such sum in excess of the amount due pitkal to him within a period fixed by the said Director, such period being not less than fifteen days, and if the does not effect the said pitkal payment the Director may suspend the relative licence until such payment is effected, so however that, if the amount is not settled within a period of three months from the date of such notification, the relative licence shall be deemed to have been revoked, saving the Director’s right to claim the amount involved.

(4) Where any amount due by a retailer has been deducted from the amount due to a pitkal or has been paid by a pitkal in accordance with this regulation, such shall notwithstanding pitkal the provisions of regulation 27 have a right to claim such amount directly from the retailer.