ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE INTERNET (MELLIE}A LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS

ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE INTERNET

(MELLIE}A LOCAL COUNCIL)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.32

ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE INTERNET

(MELLIE}A LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS

17th October, 1999

LOCAL COUNCIL BYE-LAW 37/12/99, as amended by Legal Notice 425

of 2007.

The title of these Bye-Laws is the Advertisements on the

Internet (Mellie]a Local Council) Bye-Laws.

In these Bye-Laws, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Local Government Act;

"advertisement" includes any commercial or non-commercial

promotion;

"Council" means the Mellie]a Local Council;

"person" means the person who has been authorised by the

Council to link with the Council’s Web-page under the provisions

of bye-law 3.2;

"Web-page" means access to information and database via the

Internet, known as the World Wide Web (WWW), which Webpage

may be advertised on the so-called Web Search Engines.

2.2 In these Bye-Laws, any expression which is defined in the

Act shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Act.

1 The Council shall have a Web-page on the Internet which

shall include all information on the Council and the locality which

the Council may choose to include.

3.2 There shall be one official Web-page dedicated exclusively

to the Mellie]a Local Council

Provided that the Council may authorise any person to

include or link such Web-page on or to another Web-page, either at

a charge or at no charge, as the Council may decide.

3.3 The authorization referred to in bye-law 3.2 shall be

provided in writing by the Council.

3.4 Every person who is found guilty of having breached any

provision of bye-laws 3.2 and 3.3 shall be liable to a fine

(ammenda) of forty-six euro and fifty-nine cents (€46.59) together

with two euro and thirty-three cents (€2.33) for every day during

which the Council’s Web-page is accessible on the offender ’s

Web-page without the written authorization.

1 The Council may contract, in accordance with the

regulations and procedures applicable according to the Act, with

commercial and non-commercial entities to advertise the Council’s

Web-page at a charge.

4.2

The contract mentioned in bye-law 4.1 is valid for a period

ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE INTERNET

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of one year which may be renewed for a further period of one year.

The Council reserves the right to renew such contract, and if such

renewal is refused, it shall give in writing the reasons for its refusal

to any person concerned.