TOBACCO SMOKING (COURT REGISTRIES) REGULATIONS (courtregistries)

TOBACCO SMOKING (COURT REGISTRIES)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 315.03

TOBACCO SMOKING (COURT REGISTRIES)

REGULATIONS

1st November, 2002

LEGAL NOTICE 325 of 2002, as amended by Legal Notice 424 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Tobacco Smoking

(Court Registries) Regulations.

In these regulations -

''tobacco product'' means any product manufactured, even partly,

from tobacco and intended for use by smoking, but does neither

include smokeless tobacco which is intended for use by

mastication, and including nasal and oral snuff, nor any medicine

that is sold or supplied wholly or principally for use as an aid in

giving up smoking.

No person shall at any time smoke any tobacco product

within the precincts of the registries of the Superior Courts, Civil

or Criminal, and of the Inferior Courts in Malta, and of the Court of

Magistrates (Gozo).

Any person who contravenes the provisions of these

regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be

liable to a fine (multa) of not less than eleven euros and sixty-five

cents (11.65) and not exceeding one hundred and sixteen euros and

forty-seven cents (116.47).