PUBLIC COLLECTIONS REGULATIONS

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 279.01

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS REGULATIONS

13th March, 1981

LEGAL NOTICE 28 of 1981.

The title of these regulations is the Public Collections

Regulations.

(Regulation 4)

MALTA POLICE

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT

Certificate of Authority

........................................ of ......................................................

(name)

(address)

........................................... aged ................ is hereby authorised

to act as collector in aid of ..........................................................

at ....................................... on ...................................................

(locality)

(period of collection)

Collector No. .....................

Promoter

Commissioner of Police

In these regulations, expressions defined by the Public

Collections Act have the same meaning assigned to them by that

(Regulation 4)

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Collection No. ................. Date ...............

In aid of ............................................

Name of collector and No. .......................

From ........................ to ..........................

Locality ...........................

Commissioner of Police

(1) Applications for a licence for a public collection shall

be obtainable from the Police General Headquarters and shall be

filed with the Commissioner not later than fifteen days prior to the

date of the proposed collection.

(2) No such application shall be accepted unless it is

accompanied by a list of the proposed collectors containing their

names, addresses and age.

A promoter shall -

(a) issue a certificate of authority to every collector

authorising him to act as such, which certificate shall

be in the form set out in the First Schedule, and which

shall be obtainable from the Police General

Headquarters;

(b) deliver to every collector a collector’s badge which

shall be in the form set out in the Second Schedule and

which shall be issued by the Commissioner;

(c) on the termination of the collection, or if the relative

licence has been revoked, on such revocation, return

all certificates of authority and badges to the

Commissioner;

(d) exercise all due diligence to ensure that the provisions

of these regulations are being observed.

No person shall act as collector, unless -

(a) he is fourteen years of age or over;

(b) he has been approved to act as such by the

Commissioner;

(c) he is in possession of a certificate of authority issued

by the promoter;

(d) he is in possession of a badge issued by the

Commissioner.

(1)

A collector shall not, for the purpose of a collection -

(a) act in such a manner as to cause or is likely to cause

any inconvenience, annoyance or obstruction to other

persons;

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(b) visit a house which has already been visited by him or

by another collector, for the same collection;

(c) act as such in the same place as another collector

unless a distance of not less than thirty metres is kept

between one collector and another;

(d) use any musical instruments, loudspeakers or any

other device capable of amplifying sound without the

express permission of the Commissioner; and

(e) visit any Government establishment unless a special

permit in writing has been previously obtained from

the Administrative Secretary.

(2)

Every collector shall -

(a) wear the collector’s badge on the left breast at all

times during the collection;

(b) produce, on demand by any police officer or by any

occupant of a house visited by him for the purpose of

the collection, his certificate of authority;

(c) be responsible for the safe custody of his certificate of

authority and his badge and shall return the said

certificate and badge to the promoter immediately

after he has ceased to be a collector; and

(d) obey any order given on the spot by a police officer.

All proceeds from any collection are to be deposited in a

bank account in the name of the organising body and any

disbursements or payments are to be made, as much as practicable,

by cheque from the said account.

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