SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS ORDINANCE

SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS

CHAPTER 151

SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS ORDINANCE

To provide for such measures as may be necessary for the security of

communications in the interests of naval, military and air force operations.

(31st October, 1956) *

ORDINANCE I of 1956, as amended by Legal Notice 4 of 1963; Act XIII

of 1983; and Legal Notice 410 of 2007.

The short title of this Ordinance is the Security of

Communi-cations Ordinance.

(1) The Prime Minister may make regulations to provide

for such measures as he may from time to time consider to be

necessary for the security of communications to any place outside

Malta, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing

provision, such regulations may provide for any of the following

measures

(a) delay in the despatch of postal matter from Malta;

(b) delay or interruption of telecommunications with any

place outside Malta;

(c) that telegrams shall not be transmitted to any place

outside Malta without such authority as may be

prescribed;

(d) the control of wireless transmission.

(2) Any regulation made in pursuance of subarticle (1) may

provide for the making of orders and other instruments, and may

contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to

the Prime Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of

the regulations.

If any person commits an offence against any regulation

made in pursuance of article 2(1), or contravenes or fails to comply

with any such regulation, or any order made under such regulation,

or any direction or requirement imposed under any such regulation,

he shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a period not

exceeding three months or to a fine (multa) not exceeding two

hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (232.94).

The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to any

communications made by the Government of Malta.

*See Maltese Imperial Government Notice No. 72 of the 31st of October, 1956.