NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS (COMPREHENSIVE ADMISSION TICKETS) ACT

NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS (COMPRESHENSIVE ADMISSION TICKETS)

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NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS

(COMPREHENSIVE ADMISSION TICKETS) ACT

To make provision for the issue of comprehensive admission tickets to

National Museums and Monuments.

(1st October, 1981) *

ACT XLV of 1981, as amended by Act XIII of 1983 and Legal Notice 423

of 2007.

The short title of this Act is the National Museums and

Monuments (Comprehensive Admission Tickets) Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"comprehensive admission ticket" means the ticket issued by the

Director of Museums under the provisions of the National

Museums and Monuments (Fees) Regulations, 1979;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the National

Museums of Malta;

"organised tour" means any excursion by five or more persons to

one or more places in Malta, organised by any person for the

purpose of making a profit or acquiring any benefit whatsoever.

(1) Any person who in any way whatsoever organises an

organised tour shall purchase a comprehensive admission ticket for

every person taking part on such tour.

(2) The comprehensive admission ticket so purchased shall be

valid for the day on which the organised tour takes place.

(3) The person who organises the organised tour shall deliver

to each person taking part in such tour the ticket purchased in

accordance with subsection (1) of this section.

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this

Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable

to a fine (ammenda) of not less than four euro and sixty-six cents

(4.66) but not exceeding eleven euro and sixty-five cents (11.65)

for every failure to purchase or to deliver the comprehensive

admission ticket, as the case may be.

The Minister may exempt any particular organised tour

from the provision of this Act under such conditions as he may

deem fit.

*See section 1 of the Act as originally enacted, part of which has been omitted under

the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980.