Conditions to be imposed on Persons Travelling to and from Malta

L.N. 229 of 2021

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Conditions to be imposed on Persons Travelling to and from Malta

Order, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

The title of this order is the Conditions to be imposed on

Persons Travelling to and from Malta Order, 2021.

Any person who travels to Malta, whether by air or by sea,

shall, upon that person’s arrival in Malta, provide a Passenger Locator

Form (PLF Form) together with any one of the following documents

(a) a negative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

COVID-19 test performed not longer than seventy-two (72)

hours before that person’s arrival in Malta; or

(b) a valid vaccination certificate showing that that

person has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19

Provided that the boarding of any person shall be denied

and refused prior to that person’s departure from any country to Malta,

if that person is not in possession of either one of the documents

mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b)

Provided further that persons under the age of five (5) years

shall not be required to provide either one of the documents mentioned

in paragraphs (a) and (b) upon their arrival in Malta

Provided further that a vaccination certificate shall only be

valid and accepted if issued in that official form, and with regards a

vaccine, recognised and approved by the Superintendent of Public

Health

Provided further that a valid vaccination certificate may

only be provided and accepted instead of a negative Polymerase Chain

Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test, from that date or dates in which the

Superintendent of Public Health, by notice in the Gazette, specifies

that form or forms of valid vaccination certificates which are to be

considered as the official form or forms of valid vaccination

certificates which are to be recognised and approved.

(1) Any person who, upon arrival in Malta, fails to Travel

provide a negative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test requirements

entry into Malta.

or otherwise a valid vaccination certificate, as laid down in article 2,

shall be subject to the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19

test in Malta.

(2) Any person who shall be required to be subjected to a

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test in Malta pursuant

to sub-article (1) shall be placed in mandatory quarantine, until the test

result is issued, in an accommodation specifically allocated for this

purpose by the Superintendent of Public Health. The mandatory

quarantine shall be extended for such period deemed necessary in the

case that that person’s test results positive or detected

Provided that any person who shall be required to be

subjected to a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test in

Malta pursuant to sub-article (1), and refuses to subject himself or

herself to this test, shall be required to submit himself or herself to

mandatory quarantine for such period deemed necessary as specified

in sub-article (2)

Provided that any person who resides in Malta, and who

shall be required to submit himself or herself to mandatory quarantine

in terms of this article, may choose to be placed under mandatory

quarantine in an accommodation of his or her choice so long as such

accommodation is approved as a suitable accommodation by the

Superintendent of Public Health.

(3) Any person who shall be required to be subjected to a

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test in Malta pursuant

to sub-article (1), shall be subject the payment of those applicable fees

relative to the administration of this test, and if that person is placed

under mandatory quarantine in an accommodation allocated to him or

her by the Superintendent of Public Health as laid down in sub-article

(2), that person shall also be subject to the payment of the fees

applicable for such accommodation.

(4) The sums of the applicable fees specified in sub-article (3)

shall be listed in a Schedule issued by a notice in the Gazette.

The Superintendent of Public Health may, by notice in the Exemption.

Gazette, exempt any person from the effects of this order, subject to

those conditions which the Superintendent of Public Health may deem

necessary to impose.

Carriers by air and by sea shall inform persons travelling

Requirements.

with them with the above requirements.

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