Regulations, 2024

L.N. 135 of 2024

CULTURAL HERITAGE ACT

(CAP. 445)

Organisation of Wedding Receptions at the Citadel Ditch

Regulations, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 72 of the

Cultural Heritage Act, the Minister responsible for cultural heritage

has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Organisation of

Wedding Receptions at the Citadel Ditch Regulations, 2024.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to regulate the

organisation of wedding receptions at the Citadel ditch and to provide

for matters ancillary to the same organisation, as activities that affect

cultural property.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Cultural Heritage Act;

"Citadel" means the historical site of the Citadel

fortifications, also known as the Gozo Bastion, within the

boundaries of the locality of Rabat (Ċittà Victoria), and includes

the ditch;

"Directorate" means the Directorate for Cultural Heritage

within the Ministry;

"Ministry" means the Ministry assigned ministerial

responsibility for Gozo Affairs;

"reservation" means the reservation made by a natural

person by which the same person requests that the Citadel ditch

be reserved for him.

(1) The Ministry shall have the responsibility of the

Citadel ditch for the purposes of these regulations.

(2) Natural persons may request that the Citadel ditch be

reserved for them for the purpose of organising wedding receptions.

(3) The Directorate shall be responsible for the administration

of the reservations of the Citadel ditch made in accordance with these

regulations.

(4) The Directorate shall, without prejudice to these

regulations, prepare and publish a policy which regulates the

reservation and the use of the Citadel ditch for the purpose of

organising wedding receptions. The said policy shall include such

details, prohibitions, limitations and relevant guidelines as are

necessary for the protection and best preservation and conservation of

the Citadel ditch as part of cultural property.

(5) The fee payable for the reservation and use of the ditch

shall be that of five thousand euro (€5,000), which payment shall be

made in its entirety for each wedding reception.

(6) For the purposes of any relevant law, the Citadel ditch shall

be a place where wedding receptions may be organised.

(1) The Directorate shall draw up a reservation form Request to

whereby a person may request that the ditch be reserved for the reserve

ditch.

purpose of organising a wedding reception. The said reservation form

shall contain such spaces suitable for those details that the Directorate

deems appropriate to be provided by the person submitting that form.

(2) The Directorate shall publish on its website and in the

Gazette the reservation form together with the policy mentioned in

regulation 3(4)

Provided that the said publications shall take place each

time the Directorate updates the reservation form or the policy referred

to in regulation 3(4).

(3) The Directorate shall make available to the public such

information specifying those days and times which are already booked

or which are requested to be booked.

(4) The reservation form shall be submitted within four (4)

weeks before the date indicated in the same form

Provided that in case more than one (1) date is indicated in

a request to reserve the ditch for more than one (1) day, the time limit

referred to in this sub-regulation shall be taken from the date of the

first day indicated.

(5) By submitting the reservation form, the

persons

responsible for the organisation of the wedding reception accept the

content of the policy as the terms and conditions for the use of the

ditch.

(6) Upon submission of the reservation form, the Directorate

shall within two (2) working days mark those days and times indicated

in the form as being requested to be reserved in such relevant

information available to the public.

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