Organised Public Mass Events Regulations, 2020

L.N. 322 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Organised Public Mass Events Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 26 of the

Public Health Act, the Minister responsible for Public Health, after

consultation with the Superintendent of Public Health, has made the

following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Organised Public

commencement.

Mass Events Regulations, 2020.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 5 th of

August, 2020.

Any organised public mass event shall require adherence to

the following requirements

(a) the maximum capacity of attendees shall not exceed

one (1) person per four (4) square metres of the space where any

given public mass event is to be organised; and

(b) attendees may gather in groups not exceeding ten (10)

persons, with a two (2) metres distance to be retained between

one group of ten (10) persons and another

Provided that for any organised public mass event

exceeding the capacity of one hundred (100) attendees, a prescribed

risk assessment form shall be submitted by the event organiser with the

Malta Tourism Authority and such event shall only be organised

following the approval of the risk assessment form by the Malta

Tourism Authority.

Any event organiser who fails to abide by the provisions of

these regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction,

be liable to the payment of a penalty of three thousand euro (€3,000)

for each and every instance in which these regulations are breached.

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