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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.92
ADVERTISEMENTS ON STREET FURNITURE 
( ĦAMRUN LOCAL COUNCIL) BYE-LAWS
18th July, 2002
LOCAL COUNCIL BYE-LAW 27/6/2002.
Citation.
Furniture ( Ħamrun 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  Ħamrun 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, 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  Ħamrun locality
boundary without the written authorisation of the Council.
3.2 Such authorisation may be granted either after a written
application is submitted to the Council or else after a public call for
applications is made by the Council:
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
which may be renewed by the Council for a further one year period
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by means of a contract.
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 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 for applications, the fee payable to the
Council is that offered in the accepted tender document:
Provided further that the Council may exempt voluntary
organisations which operate from the locality, parochial and
philanthropic organisations or non-government organisations as
listed in the Eight Schedule of the Act from making any such
payment.
3.6 Notwithstanding the authorisation granted under these
Bye-Laws, the person granted authorisation in accordance with
bye-law 3.2 is personally responsible for any permits or licences
necessary under any other law.
3.7 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.
Penalty. 4. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of
these Bye-Laws or infringes any condition of the authorisation
shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine ( ammenda ) of twenty liri for
every contravention, or infringement thereof, 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.
Removal of 
advertisement.
5. The Council reserves the right to remove any
advertisement affixed without authorisation or any advertisement
which is not removed by the person authorised within the time-
limit stipulated in these Bye-Laws, to any street furniture at the
expense of the person contravening any of the provisions of these
Bye-Laws or infringing any condition of the authorisation given by
virtue of these Bye-Laws.
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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).
