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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 445.01
PROTECTION OF ANTIQUITIES REGULATIONS
21st November, 1932
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 402 of 1932, as amended by Government
Notices 127 of 1935 and 338 of 1939.
Title. 
Regulations.
Discovery of sites 
or remains.
Cap. 445.
2. Any person discovering, whether in private tenements or in
tenements belonging to the Government, such sites or remains as
from their general appearance or from the nature of the objects
found on or in such sites or remains would justify the suspicion that
they are important in the sense of the Cultural Heritage Act, is
required forthwith to report the discovery to the Director of the
Museum and Secretary of the Antiquities Committee, or to the
senior officer of the nearest Police Station, who will immediately
forward it, or a record thereof, if the report is verbal, to the
Director of the Museum and Secretary of the Antiquities
Committee.
Inspection of sites 
or remains.
3. The Director of the Museum and Secretary of the
Antiquities Committee shall immediately inspect such sites or
remains or cause them to be inspected and shall report to the
Minister the result of his investigations.
Sites to be 
regarded under 
Cultural Heritage 
Act.
Cap. 445.
4. Such sites or remains are to be regarded as falling under
the provisions of the Cultural Heritage Act, unless and until they
are by the Minister declared to be free from the operation thereof
by means of a letter directed to the person who shall have made the
report, or, if necessary, to the owner of the tenement in which the
sites or remains shall have been discovered.
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Amended by:
G.N. 137 of 1935;
G.N. 338 of 1939.
SCHEDULE
List of buildings, sites and remains having a geological, 
archeological, antiquarian or artistic importance
MALTA
Ħ’Attard district
Sant’Antonio Palace and Garden
Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq district
Dolmens at Qalet Marku
Il-Baħria district
Megaliths and paths in fields near il-Qligħej
Ħal-Balzan district
Stone window in house in Main Street
Binġemma district
The cart-tracks around Nadur, etc.
Bengħajsa district
Menhir near Sant’Angelo at Ħal Far
Dolmen near Wied Żnuber
Birkirkara
Medieval Tower in Triq Għar-il-Ġobon
Birżebbuġia district
Għar Dalam cave
The Megalithic ruins at Borg-in-Nadur
Roman remains at Xgħara ta’ Kaċċjatura
The portion of Wied Dalam extending for about 5000 feet
between the Qala San Ġorġ, Birżebbuġia, and the district
known as Ta’ Ħaxun
Buġibba district
Remains of a dolmen
Tal-Qawra tower
The megalithic reamins on the side of the road to Qawra point
Cospicua district
Cottonera and Firenzuola fortifications and gates
Ħal-Qormi district
House in 45, St Paul’s Street
Palazzo Stagno No. 83 to 85 in Alley No. 3 Don Mario Street
Ħad-Dingli District
Roman remains at Ta’ Baldu
Public fountain at Djar-il Bniet
Floriana
Villino Bonnici in S. Calcedonio Street
The Mall Garden
The nymphoeum in the Argotti Garden
The garden in St Philip’s bastion (known as General’s
Garden)
The fortifications (Floriani and others) and the Gate Porte-
des-Bombes
Wignacourt fountain near Sarria Church and the aquaduct
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down from Ħ’Attard
Vilhena fountain
Il-Gudja district
Torri Ta’ Gjawar
Ruins at Ħlantun, it-torriet Santa Maria ta’ Bir Miftuħ
Tomb at Ħal Reskun
Catacombs Tal-Liebru
Il-Ħamrun
Palazzo Manoel (Casa Leoni)
Ħal-Kirkop district
Menhir at the entrance of the village
Il-Qrendi district
Megalithic temples of Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra
Old Tanks ta’ Xgħara tal-Mgħatak (Miska)
Old Tower in Tower Street
Ħal-Luqa district
Megalithics in the field Tat-tumbata
Windows and premises in the following premises:
Nos. 18, 18a, 26, 51 and 39 St George’s Street;
Nos. 39 and 51 St Andrew’s Street;
No. 52 in Alley No. 5 St Andrew’s Street;
Nos. 157, 164 and 239 Carmel Street;
No. 69 Parish Street;
No. 1 St Andrew’s Square
Marsaxlokk district
Towers San Luciano, Tal-Pont, Delimara
Marasascala district
Tower of San Tommaso - Ta’ Mamu
L-Imġarr district
Megalithic remains Ta’ Ħaġrat
Megalithic remains at l-Iskorba near Żebbiegħ
L-Imqabba district
Megalithic ruins Id-debdieba on the road to Ħal Farruġ
Bur-Mgħeż cave in the quarries
Catacombs Tal-Mintna
The old tower
Remains of a tower at Wilġia (road to Ta’ Kandia)
Il-Mosta district
Dolmens in the filed Ta’ fuq Wied Filip
Catacombs at Bistra
Cart-tracks
The series of early christian Catacombs in the district known
as Tal-Bistra on the side of the road leading to Tarġa Gap
from Rabat
In-Naxxar district
Cart-tracks
The old towers at San Pawl tat-Tarġa
L-Imdina
Fortifications and gates
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Palazzo Magistrale and Corte Capitanale
Torre dello Stendardo
Siculo-Norman buildings and remains
Banca Giuratale
Paola district
The Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum
Megalithic remains at Korradino
Ir-Rabat district
The Catacombs
Għar-il Kbir near Buskett
Cart-tracks near Buskett
Roman Villa remains
Għajn Klieb stone circle
Saqqaja fountain and wash-house
Għajn Ħamiem fountain and wash-house
Għexierem fountain
Cross pillar on esplanade
The race stand
Verdala Palace
St Julians district
Cart-tracks around Mensija
Ta’ Ċieda remains of round building
Spinola Palace, and the Belvedere formerly belonging
thereto, and the boat-house in Spinola Bay formerly
belonging to Spinola Palace
St Paul’s Bay district
Megalithic remains on Xemxija Hill
Selmun Palace
Remains of Roman work near San Pawl Milqi
Għajn Rasul fountain
Mistra battery
Villa Xemxija
Salina bay
Megalithic remains at Imdawra
Three fougasses on the shores of the bay
Senglea
Fortifications and gates
Is-Siġġiewi
Old fortified house in 141, Main Street
Houses in Main Street, Nos. 66, 72, 73, 74 and 101 
Rock-tombs at Magħluq
Inquisitor’s Palace at Għirgħenti
Dolmen at Misraħ Sinjura
Tas-Sliema and St Julians district
Fort Manoel and Sliema and St Julians old Forts
Ħal-Tarxien
The megalithic temples
Valletta
The fortifications
The Palace
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The Auberges of the Knights of Malta
La Castellania
La Sacra Infermieria
La Banca Guiratale
The Custom House
The Slaves’ Prison
The Pinto Stores (Marina)
The old fountains
The facade of the Hotel de Verdelin (Archbishop Street) now
two houses Nos.108-114
The ground and first floor of the University and Lyceum
block Merchants Street
The Manoel Theatre
The Public Library
La Cancelleria (Garrison Library) 
Palazzo Perellos and de la Salle (Republic Street 219)
The block of houses (Cottonera) enclosed in Merchants
Street, St Christopher Street, St Paul Street and St Dominic
Street
Palazzo Parisio
Casa Dorell (Merchants Street No. 10)
The facade of House No. 30 in Merchants Street
The block of houses enclosed by South Street, Old Bakery
Street, Old Mint Street and Cavalier Street
Remains of the Belvedere Magistrale behind De Liesse
Church
The two houses in Old Bakery Street Nos. 24 to 28
House in Old Bakery Street No. 9
The facade of the houses between Carts Street and Strait
Street No. 168
The gateway of Palazzo Caraffa No. 94 Old Bakery Street
The facade of Palazzo Hompesch in Old Bakery Street
The fish market at Marina
The old houses of the English Knights in St Christopher
Street Nos. 175 and 176
The house in St John Street No. 56 - the property of Sant
Fournier family
Vittoriosa
Fortifications and Gates
Clock Tower
Siculo-Norman houses
Inquisitor’s Palace
The remains of the old Auberges and other buildings of the
early days of the Order in Malta still standing within
Vittoriosa
Ħaż-Żabbar
Hompesch Gate
Dolmen at Xgħara tal-Bidni
Megalithic remains at Sant’Anard
Circular field called Iċ-ċirku
Ħaż-Żebbuġ
Rohan Gate
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Ħaż-Żebbuġ limits of 
Tower at Wied Qirda
Iż-Żejtun
Megalithic remains at Xropp il-Għaġin
Megalithic remains at Ħal Ġunju
Roman remains at Tas-silġ near Bir-rikka
Iż-Żurrieq
Megalithic ruins near Wied Moqbel 
Ruins at Tal-Baqqari
Old remains in garden of Parish house
The San Kir ruins
Remains of old buildings at Nos. 121 and 122 Carmel Street
GOZO
Il-Qala
Menhir in field
Il-Rabat
The Siculo-Norman remains of buildings and archways in the
Gran Castello
The towers and fortifications
The Latin inscription built in the Main gate
La Banca Giuratale
The old slabs in S Agostino’s cemetery
The decorated stone balconies in Triq il-Mandraġġ
The megalithic remains in the field Ta’ Marziena
Ix-Xagħra district
The megalithic temples Tal-Ġgantija
The remains at Santa Verna
The cave at tal-Maqgħad
The cave known as Calipso
The Ħaġra ta’ Sansun at Ġnien Imrik
Ix-Xewkija
Cart-tracks and megaliths at Ta’ Ċenċ
The old house Gourgeon
It-torri ta’ l-Imramma
Ix-Xgħara ta’ Għajn Lukin
L-Imġarr
Megalithic ruins ta’ l-Imriesbiet and tal-Kagħan
The tower known as Santa Ċilia
Comino
The Wignacourt tower
IN BOTH ISLANDS
All the fortifications, gateways, old inscriptions and Coats of Arms
The buildings of the windmills now mostly in disuse
