DESIGNATION, COMMAND AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF MALTA ORDER

DESIGNATION, COMMAND AND ESTABLISHMENT

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 220.02

DESIGNATION, COMMAND AND

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES

OF MALTA ORDER

25th September, 1970

LEGAL NOTICE 90 of 1970, as amended by Legal Notices 36 of 1973

and 33 of 1980.

The title of this Order is Designation, Command and

Establishment of the Armed Forces of Malta Order.

All forces raised or deemed to have been raised under the

Malta Armed Forces Act, shall be collectively known as the

“Armed Forces of Malta”.

(1) There shall be a Commander, Armed Forces of Malta,

who shall be appointed by the Minister responsible for defence; and

there may also be appointed by the said Minister, a Deputy

Commander, Armed Forces of Malta, and in the absence or

inability to act of the Commander or Deputy Commander, an

officer to act as Commander, Armed Forces of Malta.

(2) The Commander, Armed Forces of Malta, shall, subject to

the provisions of the Act aforesaid and to any regulations, rules or

orders made thereunder, as well as to the terms and conditions of

his appointment and to any instructions or directives given to him

by the said Minister, have command of the Armed Forces of Malta.

(3) The Deputy Commander shall assist the Commander in the

performance of his functions and duties; and in the absence or

inability to act of the Commander, the Deputy Commander, and in

his absence or inability to act, such other officer as may be

appointed to act as Commander, shall have the same powers of the

Commander.

(4) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this article, the

Minister responsible for defence may place any part of the Armed

Forces of Malta under a separate command and in any such case he

may appoint a separate commander and in respect of such part of

the Armed Forces of Malta, the foregoing provisions of this article

and of article 4 shall apply as if references to the Commander,

Armed Forces of Malta, were references to the commander of the

part of the said forces placed under a separate command.

The establishment of the Armed Forces of Malta and of any

corps, unit or other part thereof, shall be such establishment as the

Minister responsible for defence may, from time to time determine,

and such establishment shall, subject to the Act aforesaid and to

any regulation, rules or orders made thereunder, be governed by the

instructions and orders which the said Minister, or the Commander

or other officer acting under the authority of the said Minister, may

DESIGNATION, COMMAND AND ESTABLISHMENT

from time to time issue.