Regulations on Sport Activities, 2021

L.N. 207 of 2021

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Regulations on Sport Activities, 2021

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 Regulations on

commencement.

Sport Activities, 2021.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on 10th May 2021.

(Regulation 5)

Form for performing high-level or

professional contact or non-contact sports

Sports Discipline

Name of individual or

team

Name and Surname

Include names of all athletes that form part of a team

Event(s) where it

represented Malta as

of March 2019

Games of the Small State of Europe /European/Mondial/

Event level

Commonwealth/Oliplains

Event(s) in which it is

registered in order to

represent Malta

Events levels men-

Games of the Small State of Europe/European/Mondial/

tioned where to repre-

Commonwealth/Oliplains

sent Malta

Place of Training

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Physical exercise and recreational sport shall be

permissible individually or between that number of persons as

established in the Number of persons in Public Spaces Regulations and

according to the standards issued by the Superintendent of Public

Health.

Training of non-contact sport shall be permissibble and can

Training of non-

be organised according to the standards issued by the Superintendent

of Public Health by a person, association of persons, civil or

commercial partnership, or other entity, registered in the Register of

Sport Persons under article 35 of the Sports Act

Provided that spectators shall not attend these training

sessions.

(1) Those categories of high-level professional contact or

non-contact sports specified in the standards issued by the

Superintendent of Public Health shall be permissible, and may be

organised according to the measures and conditions laid down in the

same standards by a person, association of persons, civil or

commercial partnership, or any other entity recognised by the law,

registered in the Register of Sport Persons under article 35 of the

Sports Act

Provided that spectators may not attend for training,

competitions, championships or other sporting events organised in

relation to any of the sport activities permissible under this regulation.

(2)

Any sport activity falling under this regulation shall require

the approval of SportMalta following the submission of an application

to this effect, in the form prescribed in the schedule to these

regulations, by the respective person, association of persons, civil or

commercial partnership, or other entity, as specified in sub-regulation

(1).

Any sports facilities, national pool or stadiums shall adhere Standards.

to standards established by the Superintendent of Public Health.

Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of Penalties.

regulation 2 shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction be

liable to the payment of a penalty of two hundred euro (€200) for each

occasion that these regulations are infringed

Provided that if the offence is admitted and the penalty is

paid before proceedings are commenced before the Commissioner for

Justice, the penalty applicable shall be reduced to hundred euro

(€100).

Any person, association of persons, civil or commercial Penalties.

partnership, or other entity recognised by law, as specified in

regulation 3 and regulation 4 responsible for organizing an activity in

breach of regulation 3 or regulation 4, shall be guilty of an offence and

shall, on conviction, be liable to payment of a penalty of six thousand

euro (€6,000), for each and every occasion on which the same

regulations are breached.

The Organised Sport Activities Regulations are hereby Repeal and

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repealed

Provided that the Organised Sport Activities Regulations

shall remain in force for the purposes of any act, decision, action or

proceedings taken in respect of any infringement of the same

regulations.