                    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) *
Enacted by ORDINANCE I of 1956, as amended by Legal Notice 4 of
1963; and Act XIII of 1983.
Short title.
cations Ordinance.
Regulations. 
Amended by:
L.N. 4 of 1963.
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:
( 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 subsection (1) of this
section 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.
Penalties. 
Amended by:
XIII. 1983.5.
3. If any person commits an offence against any regulation
made in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 2 of this Ordinance,
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 one hundred liri.
Government 
communications.
4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to any
communications made by the Government of Malta.
* See  Maltese Imperial Government Notice No. 72 of the 31st of October, 1956.
