Chapter 151
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
Legal text
SECURITY OF COMMUNICATIONS 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.