Public Places or Areas (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

L.N. 283 of 2011

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Abandonment, Dumping and Disposal of Waste in Streets and

Public Places or Areas (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, the Prime Minister,

in consultation with the Malta Environment and Planning Authority

and with the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs, has made

the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Abandonment,

Dumping and Disposal of Waste in Streets and Public Places or

Areas (Amendment) Regulations, 2011, and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Abandonment, Dumping and Disposal

of Waste in Streets and Public Places or Areas Regulations, 2005,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) immediately after the definition “the Act”, there

shall be added the following new definition

“ “advertising material” means any means of

printed, electronically written advertising material

intended for promotion purposes to advertise or promote

an event and shall include all forms of posters or

flyers;”;

(b) immediately after the definition “officer”, there

shall be added the following new definitions

“ “organiser” means the person or entity responsible

for the organisation of the event or promotion being

advertised and shall include the promoter of such event;

“printer” means the person or entity engaged by

the organiser to undertake the printing of the advertising

material;”;

(c)

in the definition “private property” for the words

“includes a” there shall be substituted the words “means any

private property and includes but is not limited to boundary

walls,”;

(d) immediately after the definition “public place”

there shall be added the following new definition

“ “public property” includes but is not limited to

buildings, walls, fences, bastions, electricity or light

poles, bus stops, traffic lights, directional poles, trees,

dustbins, benches, monuments;”;

(e) immediately after the definition “time reasonably

approximate”, there shall be added the following new

definition

“ “venue” means the entity responsible for

the venue wherein the event being advertised in the

advertising material is being held.”.

Immediately after regulation 9 of the principal regulations

there shall be added the following new regulations

No person shall affix through any means

whatsoever any advertising material on any public or

private property

Provided that the provisions of this regulation shall

not apply to

(a) advertising material affixed inside

private property even though such material may be

visible from a public place;

(b) advertising material affixed to private

property with the written consent of the owner.

(1) The organiser shall ensure that any

advertising material produced and distributed in respect

of an event shall include the name and contact details of

the organiser, the venue and the printer.

(2) The organiser shall ensure that no litter

is generated as a result of the advertising material

produced and distributed in respect of an event being

organised.

(3) The organiser shall ensure that no

damage is caused to amenities and surroundings wherein

the advertising material is produced and distributed in

respect of the event being organised.

The owner of the venue shall provide, upon

Information to

be provided by

request

by the competent authority, the name and contact

details of the organiser of the event in respect of which

the advertising material was produced and distributed.”.

4. In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 10 of the principal

regulations, immediately after the words “contained in regulation

9,” there shall be added the words “ 9A, 9B, 9C”.

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