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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.29
ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE 
(MELLIE }A LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS
1st October, 1999
LOCAL COUNCIL BYE-LAW 37/9/99.
Citation .
Furniture (Mellie ]a 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 the Mellie ]a 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
or bins on wheels benches, planters, boundary walls, walls,
columns, 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 Mellie ]a 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 to be submitted:
Provided that the authorisation shall be deemed void if the
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, the authorisation of the Council
must 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
which may be renewed for a further one year period. In every case
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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 entering 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 on the contract, or at a
higher price than that established by the Council by the contract or
with conditioned different forms than those stipulated in the
original contract.
3.5 For every authorisation granted by the Council according
to 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 organisations that operate from the locality, or
non-governmental organisations 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 adverts shall be guilty of a contravention.
Penalty. 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 (Lm20) for such contravention, and to a
further fine ( ammenda ) of not less than one lira (Lm1) and not
more than five liri (Lm5) for every day during which one of the
provisions of these Bye-Laws or any condition of the authorization
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 metres Lm3 Lm5 Lm20
up to 1.0 square metres Lm6 Lm10 Lm50
up to 2.0 square metres Lm12 Lm20 Lm100
exceeding 2.0 square metres Lm2 per day (subject to a minimum of Lm40)
