Public Stores Act (Chapter 18:06)
Malawi
Public Stores Act
Chapter 18:06
- Assented to on 23 April 1966
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Commenced on 4 May 1966
- [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2014.]
- [Note: This version of the Act was revised and consolidated in the Forth Revised Edition of the Laws of Malawi (L.R.O. 1/2015), by the Solicitor General and Secretary for Justice under the authority of the Revision of the Laws Act.]
This Act may be cited as the Public Stores Act. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—“Government property” and “property of the Government” means any property of the Government of Malawi;“stores” includes all goods and chattels and any single store or article. Where in any proceedings, whether under this Act or under any other law and irrespective of whether such proceedings be of a criminal or of a civil nature, it is proved that any stores which are the subject matter of such proceedings have had applied thereto any of the marks described in the First or the Second Schedule, such proof shall be prima facie evidence that such stores are the property of the Government. Any person who, with intent to conceal the property of the Government in any stores, takes out, destroys or obliterates, wholly or in part, any mark described in the First or the Second Schedule shall be guilty of a felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years. The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, add to or delete from the stores and marks set forth in the First Schedule.1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Marks in First Schedule appropriated for public stores
4. Marks in Schedules to be prima facie proof of ownership by Government
5. Obliteration with intent to conceal
6. Power to amend First Schedule