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Security of Communications Ordinance (Cap. 151) Consolidated

SE CUR I TY OF COM M UNICA T IONS [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.

2. (1) The Prime Minister may make regulations to provide for such measure s as he ma y fr om tim e to t i m e con s id er to b e necessary for the security of communications to any place outside Malt a, and withou t prejudice to t he gen erali ty of t he foregoing provision, such regulations may provide for any of the following measures:

(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.

Short title.

Regulations. Amended by: L.N. 4 of 1963.

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 exceedi ng three months or to a fine (mult a ) not excee ding two hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (232.94).

4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to any communications made by the Government of Malta.

Penalties. Amended by: XIII. 1983.5;

L.N. 410 of 2007.

Government communications.

*See Maltese Imperial Government Notice No. 72 of the 31st of October, 1956.