Bye-Laws, 2020

L.C.B.L. 35/01/2020

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT

(CAP. 363)

Caravans in the Locality of Marsaskala (Marsaskala Local Council)

Bye-Laws, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 34 of the Local

Government Act, the Marsaskala Local Council, has made the

following Bye-Laws:-

The title of these Bye-Laws is Caravans in the Locality of Citation.

Marsaskala (Marsaskala Local Council) Bye-Laws, 2020.

(Bye-Law 3)

Site Plans

Site Plan A

Site Plan B

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In these Bye-Laws, unless the context otherwise requires

Interpretation.

"the Act" means the Local Government Act;

"camp" means that it includes any type of tent made of

fabric or canvas or any other textile material, and any type of

camp or any other temporary structure, but excludes umbrellas;

"camper" means any vehicle propelled by its own

mechanical power and designed for the transport of persons, and

which is equipped with beds and, or with facilities for the

preparation of food;

"caravan" means any vehicle, without mechanical power of

its own, designed for the transport of persons, and which is

equipped with beds and, or with facilities for the preparation of

food;

"the Council" means the Marsaskala Local Council;

"gazebo" means that it includes all types of roofed

structures made of fabric or canvas, usually but not necessarily

with open sides, providing a shady place, but excludes

umbrellas;

"locality" means the locality of Marsaskala as defined in

the Act.

1 Save as provided in the following Bye-Laws, no person may, Prohibition.

in any place within the locality, including a beach, place, leave, erect, or

park, temporarily or otherwise a camper, caravan, camp or gazebo.

3.2 A person may place a camper provided all the following

conditions are observed

(a) that it is parked within a permitted parking space as

permitted by traffic regulations, but not in the zone known as St.

Thomas Bay as depicted in the Schedule in Site Plan A, as well

as Żonqor as depicted in the Schedule in Site Plan B;

(b) that it does not cause a nuisance, inconvenience or

obstacle, and that it does not lead to deterioration or defacement

of a public place; and

(c) that no other object is placed or left on the pavement

or in the street or around the camper, even if said object is

accessory to the camper.

3.3 A person may erect a camp or gazebo provided all the

following conditions are observed

(a) that the camp or gazebo is erected on a beach or close

to the foreshore, but not on salt pans, and not on a pavement,

street or any other public place;

(b) that it does not cause a nuisance, inconvenience or

obstacle, and that it does not lead to deterioration or defacement

of a public place;

(c) that no object is placed or left on the pavement or in

the street or around the camp or gazebo, even if said object is

accessory to the camp or gazebo, except within a space of one

and a half (1.5) metres around the camp or gazebo; and

(d) that it is dismantled from dusk until dawn the

following day.

Any person who contravenes any provision of these Bye-

Laws, shall on, conviction, be liable to a fine (ammenda) of two hundred

euro (€200) for such contravention together with a further ammenda of

fifty euro (€50) for each day during which such contravention of these

Bye-laws would have ensued.

The penalties referred to in Bye-Law 4 shall be without

prejudice to any other right of action which the Council or any other

authority may take to remove, store or dispose of any camp, camper,

caravan or gazebo or any other object that is an accessory thereto in

terms of the provisions of the Clamping and Removal of Motor

Vehicles and Encumbering Objects Regulations, or any other law, and

without prejudice to any other penalty or fine (ammenda) which may

be imposed under any other law.