In short
This law allows the Prime Minister to make rules to protect communications for naval, military, and air force operations. It focuses on securing communications that go outside of Malta.
What it regulates
- Measures for the security of communications to places outside Malta.
- Delay or interruption of postal matter and telecommunications.
- Control over the transmission of telegrams and wireless communications.
Who it concerns
- Any person involved in communications to places outside Malta.
- The Prime Minister, who can make regulations.
Key points
- The Prime Minister can make regulations for communication security.
- Regulations can include delaying postal matter or interrupting telecommunications with places outside Malta.
- Telegrams to places outside Malta may require specific authority.
- Offences against these regulations can lead to imprisonment for up to three months or a fine not exceeding two hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (€232.94).
- Communications made by the Government of Malta are not subject to this law.
📄 Legal text
SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS
[CAP. 151.
1
CHAPTER 151
SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS ORDINANCE
To provide for such measures as may be necessary for the security of
communications in the interests of naval, military and air force operations.
(31st October, 1956)*
ORDINANCE I of 1956, as amended by Legal Notice 4 of 1963; Act XIII
of 1983; and Legal Notice 410 of 2007.
1.
The short title of this Ordinance is the Security of
Communi-cations Ordinance.
Short title.
2. (1) The Prime Minister may make regulations to provide
for such measures as he may from time to time consider to be
necessary for the security of communications to any place outside
Malta, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
provision, such regulations may provide for any of the following
measures:
Regulations.
Amended by:
L.N. 4 of 1963.
(a) delay in the despatch of postal matter from Malta;
(b) delay or interruption of telecommunications with any
place outside Malta;
(c) that telegrams shall not be transmitted to any place
outside Malta without such authority as may be
prescribed;
(d) the control of wireless transmission.
(2) Any regulation made in pursuance of subarticle (1) may
provide for the making of orders and other instruments, and may
contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to
the Prime Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of
the regulations.
3.
If any person commits an offence against any regulation
made in pursuance of article 2(1), or contravenes or fails to comply
with any such regulation, or any order made under such regulation,
or any direction or requirement imposed under any such regulation,
he shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding three months or to a fine (multa) not exceeding two
hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (232.94).
Penalties.
Amended by:
XIII. 1983.5;
L.N. 410 of 2007.
4.
The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to any
communications made by the Government of Malta.
Government
communications.
*See Maltese Imperial Government Notice No. 72 of the 31st of October, 1956.
🔗 Għas-sors uffiċjali
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