FILFLA NATURE RESERVE ACT

FILFLA NATURE RESERVE

CHAPTER 323

FILFLA NATURE RESERVE ACT

To provide for the establishment of the Filfla Natural Reserve.

(1st June, 1988) *

ACT XV of 1988, as amended by Legal Notice 424 of 2007.

The short title of this is the Filfla Nature Reserve Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"flora and fauna" are to be construed as meaning all plants and

animals, resident or migratory, species of which exist in the wild

state on the Island of Filfla;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the environment.

All the surface area of the Island of Filfla shall be a

protected nature reserve.

The killing, capture, collection, trapping, maintaining in

captivity, taxidermy, commercial exploitation, as well as picking

and hunting of any species of flora and fauna in or from the Filfla

nature reserve is prohibited

Provided that the Minister may remove such prohibition for

the purpose of scientific study in particular cases.

(1) Access to the Filfla nature reserve shall be by

permission to be granted by the Minister for educational and

scientific purposes.

(2) In granting permission the Minister may impose such

conditions as he may deem appropriate.

(3) Members of the Police and the Armed Forces of Malta shall

have access to the Filfla nature reserve for the purposes of defence

and security, rescue operations and the control of smuggling and

the investigation of crimes.

Any person who contrarticleavenes any of the provisions

of this Act or any condition of a permission granted under the last

preceding article, shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment

for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine (multa) not

exceeding one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and

sixty-nine cents (€1,164.69) or to both such imprisonment and fine.

*See article 1(2) of the Act as originally enacted, which subarticle has been omitted

under the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980.