Regulations on Sport Activities (Amendment No. 3), 2021

L.N. 272 of 2021

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Regulations on Sport Activities (Amendment No. 3), 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 Citation and

Sport Activities (Amendment No. 3), 2021 and these regulations shall commencement.

be read and construed as one with the Regulations on Sport Activities, L.N.

2021. hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on 28 June 2021

Provided that the principal regulations which are being

amended by virtue of these regulations shall be deemed to be still in

force, even after 28 June 2021, for the purposes of any act, decision,

action or proceedings taken in respect of any breach of those

regulations.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

substituted by the following new regulation

"3. (1) Non-contact sports shall be permissible

and can 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.

(2) Contact sports shall be permissible and can 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.

(3) The attendance of spectators to any event and,

or activity related to the sports permissible under this

regulation shall be regulated and controlled in accordance

with the standards issued by the Superintendent of Public

Health.".

Regulation 4 of the principal regulation shall be substituted

by the following new regulation

"4. (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.

(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).

(3) The attendance of spectators to any event and,

or activity related to the sports permissible under this

regulation shall be regulated and controlled in

accordance with the standards issued by the

Superintendent of Public Health.".

In the Schedule to the principal regulations, the words

"(Regulation 5)" shall be substituted by the words "(Regulation 4(2))".

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