Mandatory Tests for Certain Travellers Regulations, 2020

L.N. 333 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Mandatory Tests for Certain Travellers Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 26 and 27(c)

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 Mandatory Tests

commencement.

for Certain Travellers Regulations, 2020.

These regulations shall come into force on the 22 nd August

(2)

2020.

(1) All travellers coming from the identified countries

outside Malta listed in the notice published by the Minister responsible

for public health in the Gazette shall, upon their arrival in Malta,

provide to the authorised officers a negative Polymerase Chain

Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test performed not longer than seventy-

two (72) hours before their arrival

Provided that travellers who fail to produce the Polymerase

Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test may be submitted to testing in

Malta and may be subject to a quarantine order issued by the

Superintendent of Public Health

Provided that the Minister responsible for public health

after consultation with the Superintendent for Public Health may, by

notice in the Gazette, revise the list of identified countries.

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