TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS ORDER *

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 465.72

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS ORDER *

9th May 2022

LEGAL NOTICE 134 of 2022,as amended by Legal Notice 152 of

2022.

The title of this order is the Travel Requirements Order.

(1)

Any person who travels from any country to

Malta, whether by air or by sea, shall, upon arrival in Malta, be

required to present

(a)

a certificate of vaccination against COVID-19; or

(b)

a negative Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

COVID-19 test performed not more than seventy-two (72)

hours prior to arrival in Malta; or

(c)

a negative COVID-19 rapid antigen test (RAT)

performed not more than twenty-four (24) hours prior to arrival

in Malta; or

(d)

a certificate of recovery from COVID-19 valid for

not more than one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date

of the first positive Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-

19 test result

Provided that the Superintendent of Public Health may

also, by means of standards, indicate other documents, apart from

those mentioned in sub-article (1), considered acceptable for travel

from any country to Malta.

(2)

Any person who travels from any country to Malta

without adhering with one of the travel requirements specified in

paragraphs (a) to (d) of sub-article (1) shall, upon arrival in Malta, be

required to submit himself to a period of quarantine of ten (10) days

Provided that the quarantine period shall terminate on the

seventh (7) day of quarantine if, on the seventh (7) day of quarantine,

the person so quarantined undergoes a COVID-19 test that results in a

negative test result.

(1)

The provisions of this order shall not apply to

children under the age of twelve (12) years travelling from any country

to Malta.

(2)

The provisions of this order shall also not apply to any

person travelling from any country to Malta

*This order has been repealed by Legal Notice 211 of 2022.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

(a)

on cargo flights, ferry flights, humanitarian flights

and repatriation flights; or

(b)

on cargo ships, including container ships or ro-ro

vessels, carrying goods and essential commodities, or on

tankers loaded with essential fuels.

(3)

The Superintendent of Public Health may provide for

further exemptions from the provisions of this order, by notice in the

Gazette or by protocols issued for this purpose, where, in the opinion

of the Superintendent of Public Health, the travel of certain persons or

goods or for certain services, is deemed to be necessary or essential.

The Period of Quarantine Order and the Travel Ban

(Extension to All Countries) Order are hereby repealed

Provided that the Period of Quarantine Order and the

Travel Ban (Extension to All Countries) Order shall be deemed to be

still in force, even after the coming into force of this order, for the

purposes of any act, decision, action or proceedings taken in respect of

any breach of the same orders.