                                FILFLA  NATURE RESERVE g CAP. 323.        1
CHAPTER 323
FILFLA NATURE RESERVE ACT
To provide for the establishment of the Filfla Natural Reserve.
 (1st June, 1988) *
Enacted by ACT XV of 1988.
Short title.
Interpretation.
"flora and fauna" are to be construed as meaning all plants and
animals, resident or migratory, species of which exist in the wild
state on the Island of Filfla;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the environment.
Establishing Filfla 
as a nature reserve.
3. All the surface area of the Island of Filfla shall be a
protected nature reserve.
Prohibition of 
killing, etc., of 
flora and fauna 
from nature 
reserve.
4. The killing, capture, collection, trapping, maintaining in
captivity, taxidermy, commercial exploitation, as well as picking
and hunting of any species of flora and fauna in or from the Filfla
nature reserve is prohibited:
Provided that the Minister may remove such prohibition for
the purpose of scientific study in particular cases.
Access to nature 
reserve.
5. (1) Access to the Filfla nature reserve shall be by
permission to be granted by the Minister for educational and
scientific purposes.
(2) In granting permission the Minister may impose such
conditions as he may deem appropriate.
(3) Members of the Police and the Armed Forces of Malta shall
have access to the Filfla nature reserve for the purposes of defence
and security, rescue operations and the control of smuggling and
the investigation of crimes.
Offences and 
penalties.
6. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
Act or any condition of a permission granted under the last
preceding section, shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine ( multa ) not
exceeding five hundred liri or to both such imprisonment and fine.
* See  subsection (2) of section 1 of the Act as originally enacted, which subsection has
been omitted under the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980.
