PUBLIC GARDENS (Closing) ORDINANCE

PUBLIC GARDENS (CLOSING)

CHAPTER 34

PUBLIC GARDENS (Closing) ORDINANCE

To provide for the closing to the public of public Government gardens or

pleasure grounds on certain days.

(26th May, 1905) *

Enacted by ORDINANCE VII of 1905 as amended by Ordinance IX of

1946; Government Notice 67 of 1952; Act VI of 1955; Legal Notices: 4 of

1963, 8 of 1968; and Acts: XXV of 1968 and XXII of 1976.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Gardens

(Closing) Ordinance.

Silver Jubilee Playground in Gozo.

*See Proclamation No. VIII of 1905.

The Minister responsible for agriculture may on such days

as he shall think fit close to the public any public government

garden or pleasure ground or any part thereof, and may grant the

use of the same, either gratuitously or for payment, to any public

association, institution, or charity, or for any agricultural,

horticultural, or other show, or for any other public purpose, or may

use the same for any such show or purpose; and the admission to

the said garden or pleasure ground, or such part thereof, on the days

when the same shall be so closed to the public, may be either with

or without payment, as directed by the Minister responsible for

agriculture, or, with his consent, by the society or persons to whom

the use of the garden or pleasure ground, or such part thereof, may

be granted.

(1) Except in the case of the public government gardens or

pleasure grounds mentioned in the Schedule hereto, the days on

which public government gardens or pleasure grounds may be

closed shall not exceed twelve days in any one year, nor four

consecutive days on any one occasion

Provided that, in any year in which the Malta Trade Fair is held,

the number of days above-mentioned, in respect of the garden or

pleasure ground in which the fair is held, shall be twenty and ten

respectively.

(2) The Minister responsible for agriculture may, from time to

time, add other public government gardens or pleasure grounds to

the Schedule hereto or otherwise vary the Schedule hereto, in each

case by notice published in the Government Gazette.