S.L. 499.52 ст. 45Special procedure for certain offences.

(1) Notwithstanding any other law providing for the trial and punishment of offences, where any person commits any of the offences set out in the first column of the Third Schedule, the following provisions of this regulation shall apply.

(2) An enforcement officer in whose opinion any such offence has been committed may stop the small ship used in the commission of the offence and take the details of the owner or driver of the small ship, of the small ship and of the offence.

(3) Ordinary proceedings will be taken in accordance with the provisions of the regulation 49 in respect of the offence in question and the offender, on conviction, shall be liable to the fines (multa) laid down in the second column to the Third Schedule.

(4) When ordinary proceedings are taken according to subregulation (3), the court shall also have the power to apply the provisions of regulation 47.

(5) The fines laid down in the second column to the Third Schedule are in addition to and not in derogation of the fines laid down in any other regulations in force or any other law.

(6) For the purpose of this regulation, "small ship" means any small ship navigating in the internal and territorial waters of Malta registered according to regulation 3.