In short
This law makes rules for buying special tickets, called "comprehensive admission tickets," for people who go on organised tours to National Museums and Monuments.
What it regulates
- The requirement to buy comprehensive admission tickets for organised tours.
- The validity period of these tickets.
- The delivery of these tickets to participants of an organised tour.
- Penalties for not following the rules about these tickets.
Who it concerns
- Anyone who organises an organised tour of five or more persons to places in Malta for profit or benefit.
- The Minister responsible for the National Museums of Malta.
Key points
- If you organise an "organised tour" (five or more people, for profit), you must buy a comprehensive admission ticket for every person on the tour.
- These tickets are only good for the day the organised tour happens.
- The organiser must give each person on the tour their ticket.
- Breaking these rules can lead to a fine of not less than four euro and sixty-six cents (€4.66) and not more than eleven euro and sixty-five cents (€11.65) for each ticket not bought or delivered.
📄 Legal text
NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS (COMPRESHENSIVE ADMISSION TICKETS)
[CAP. 298.
1
CHAPTER 298
NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS
(COMPREHENSIVE ADMISSION TICKETS) ACT
To make provision for the issue of comprehensive admission tickets to
National Museums and Monuments.
(1st October, 1981)*
ACT XLV of 1981, as amended by Act XIII of 1983 and Legal Notice 423
of 2007.
1.
The short title of this Act is the National Museums and
Monuments (Comprehensive Admission Tickets) Act.
2.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
Short title.
Interpretation.
"comprehensive admission ticket" means the ticket issued by the
Director of Museums under the provisions of the National
Museums and Monuments (Fees) Regulations, 1979;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the National
Museums of Malta;
"organised tour" means any excursion by five or more persons to
one or more places in Malta, organised by any person for the
purpose of making a profit or acquiring any benefit whatsoever.
3. (1) Any person who in any way whatsoever organises an
organised tour shall purchase a comprehensive admission ticket for
every person taking part on such tour.
Purchase of
comprehensive
admission ticket.
(2) The comprehensive admission ticket so purchased shall be
valid for the day on which the organised tour takes place.
(3) The person who organises the organised tour shall deliver
to each person taking part in such tour the ticket purchased in
accordance with subsection (1) of this section.
4.
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable
to a fine (ammenda) of not less than four euro and sixty-six cents
(4.66) but not exceeding eleven euro and sixty-five cents (11.65)
for every failure to purchase or to deliver the comprehensive
admission ticket, as the case may be.
Penalty for
offences.
Amended by:
XIII. 1983.5;
L.N. 423 of 2007.
5.
The Minister may exempt any particular organised tour
from the provision of this Act under such conditions as he may
deem fit.
Power to exempt
from provisions of
this Act.
*See section 1 of the Act as originally enacted, part of which has been omitted under
the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980.
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