                    LEPERS [ CAP. 45.    1
CHAPTER 45 
LEPERS ORDINANCE
To make provisions with respect to the Disease commonly known as
Leprosy.
(19th September, 1919) *
Enacted by ORDINANCE XX of 1919, as amended by: Act XV of 1929;
Ordinances: XXV of 1939 and XVI of 1942; Acts: XXXIX of 1948 and XI of
1953; Legal Notice 46 of 1965; Act LVIII of 1974; Legal Notice 148 of
1975; and Act VIII of 1990.
Short title.
Alien lepers 
prohibited from 
landing in Malta. 
Amended by: 
XI. 1953.3; 
L.N. 46 of 1965 
LVIII. 1974.68; 
L.N. 148 of 1975; 
VIII. 1990.3.
2. (1) No leper coming from any place outside Malta shall
land at any of the ports of Malta.
(2) The provision of subsection (1) of this section shall not
apply to persons born in Malta.
(3) The master or other person in charge of any vessel who
suffers or permits or fails to prevent the landing from such vessel at
any such port of any person whom he knows or has reasonable
grounds to believe to be a leper shall, on conviction, be liable to the
punishments established for contraventions.
Measures to be 
taken in case of 
landing.
(4) Every leper so landing as aforesaid may by warrant of the
President of Malta be committed to a hospital designated therein
and there detained for such time as may be fixed in the warrant.
(5) Every leper so landing as aforesaid may be brought before a
magistrate of the Courts of Magistrates, who may examine such
leper and any other witness on oath, concerning the place from
which such leper came to Malta, and may cause such leper to be
removed to such place in such manner as the President of Malta
may direct.
(6) The reasonable cost of such inquiry and removal shall be
borne and paid by the master or other person in charge of the vessel
by which such leper was brought to Malta, or by whose act or
default such leper was permitted to land.
(7) Such cost shall be recoverable as a civil debt due to the
Government by proceedings before the Civil Court, First Hall. 
(8) For the purposes of the preceding provisions of this section
the decision whether a person is a leper shall rest with a board
composed of the Chief Government Medical Officer or his
representative and two other medical practitioners appointed by the
President of Malta. The decision of such board shall be final and
conclusive.
* See  Proclamation No. XVII of 1919.
