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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.97
ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE 
( FLORIANA LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS
29th August, 2003
LOCAL COUNCIL BYE-LAW 18/2/2003.
Citation.
Furniture (Floriana Local Council) Bye-Laws.
Interpretation.
Cap. 363.
"advertisement" means any type of promotion whether
commercial or otherwise, and includes a notice;
"applicant" means the person who applies to the Council under
the provisions of bye-law 3.2;
"contractor" means the person who has been authorised by the
Council to display, fix or place any advertisement on street
furniture under the provisions of bye-law 3.1;
"Council" means Floriana Local Council;
"street furniture" means any object, movable or immovable
which is the Council’s property or is under its responsibility and
which although would not substantially form part of the road,
pavement, garden or other public area, would be placed in such
area or fixed to it, or even placed on it, and includes dustbins,
skips, bins on wheels, benches, planters, boundary walls, walls,
columns, tree pits, verges and central reservations, roundabouts,
central strips and traffic islands.
Authorisation to 
advertise on street 
furniture.
3.1 Without prejudice to any permit, authorisation, or licence
required under any law, no person shall display, fix or place any
advertisement on any street furniture within the Floriana locality
boundary without the written authorisation of the Council.
3.2 Such authorisation may be granted either after a written
application to the Council or else after a public call made by the
Council for applications is to be submitted:
Provided that the authorisation shall be deemed void if
applicant fails to comply with the requirements established in the
guidelines issued or which may be issued from time to time by the
Council in terms of article 33(1)( g ) of the Act:
Provided also that the guidelines shall be incorporated in
the contract document which shall regulate the authorisation
granted by the Council to the contractor in terms of bye-law 3.3.
3.3 Following a public call by the Council, the authorisation of
the Council shall take the form of a contract in accordance with the
regulations and procedures applicable to Local Councils.
Such a contract shall be valid for a period of one year
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which may be renewed by the Council for a further one year period
by means of a contract. In every case the Council reserves the right
to refuse to renew the contract after having given valid reasons in
writing to the person concerned.
3.4 The Council may, on awarding the contract mentioned in
bye-law 3.3, authorise the contractor to use the space where
advertisements may be displayed on street furniture, even by
selling the mentioned space to third parties. In such a case, third
parties would not require the Council’s authorisation:
Provided that the contractor shall not use or sell the space
for any advertisement that is prohibited by the contract, or at a
higher price than that established by the Council by the contract or
with conditions other than those stipulated in the original contract.
3.5 For every authorisation granted by the Council in
accordance with these Bye-Laws there shall be paid a fee as
established in the Schedule:
Provided that for the authorisation granted by the Council
following a public call, the fee entitled to be paid to the Council is
that offered in the tender document which has been accepted.
3.6 Notwithstanding the authorisation granted under these
Bye-Laws, the person to whom authorisation is given is personally
responsible for any permits or licences necessary under any other
law.
3.7 The Council may grant authorisation in terms of these Bye-
Laws to voluntary organizations that operate from the locality, or
non-governmental organizations listed in the Eighth Schedule to
the Act, after the Council receives a written request so as to
advertise activities or public notices without payment.
3.8 Any authorisation granted under these Bye-Laws is subject
amongst other conditions to a condition that the advertisement shall
be removed within one week from the expiry date of the
authorisation. In any case to the contrary, the person responsible
for removing such advertisements shall be guilty of a
contravention.
Penalties. 4. Every person who is in breach of one of the provisions of
these Bye-Laws or any condition of the authorisation given by
virtue of these Bye-Laws shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine
( ammenda ) of twenty liri for such contravention, and to a further
fine ( ammenda ) of not less than one lira and not more than five liri
for every day during which one of the provisions of these Bye-
Laws or any condition of the authorisation is breached.
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SCHEDULE
(Bye-law 3.5)
Fees due for Advertisements on Street Furniture
Size Fee due
Two Weeks One Month One Year
Up to 0.5 square metre Lm 3 Lm 5 Lm 20
Up to 1.0 square metre Lm 6 Lm 10 Lm 50
Up to 2.0 square metres Lm 12 Lm 20 Lm 100
Exceeding 2.0 square metres - Lm2 per day (subject to a minimum of Lm40).
