CIVIL AVIATION (RESTRICTION OF FLYING) REGULATIONS (restrictionofflying)

CIVIL AVIATION (RESTRICTION OF FLYING)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 499.21

CIVIL AVIATION (RESTRICTION OF FLYING)

REGULATIONS

31st May, 2002

LEGAL NOTICE 122 of 2002, as amended by Legal Notices 411 of 2007

and 160 of 2011 and Act XL of 2023.

The title of these regulations is the Civil Aviation

(Restriction of Flying) Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"aircraft" shall have the meaning assigned to it in article 2 of the

Air Navigation Act;

"Director General" means the Director General responsible for

Civil Aviation in Malta and, to the extent of the authority given,

any person authorised in that behalf by the Director General;

"owner" in relation to an aircraft includes any person by whom

the aircraft is hired at the time of the offence.

Aircraft in support of fishing operations in the

Mediterranean Sea shall not take off from, or land in, Malta

throughout each of the months of May, June and July of each year.

If it appears to the Director General that an aircraft is

intended or likely to be flown in support of fishing operations, the

Director General shall have the right to prohibit the take-off from,

or landing in Malta of that aircraft during the month of June of each

year.

An aircraft owner who contravenes regulation 3 shall be

liable on conviction to a fine (multa) not exceeding two thousand

and three hundred and twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents

(2,329.37) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months

or to both such fine and imprisonment.