                PUBLIC GARDENS (CLOSING)       ġ CAP. 34.  1
CHAPTER 34
PUBLIC GARDENS (Closing) ORDINANCE
To provide for the closing to the public of public Government gardens or
pleasure grounds on certain days.
(26th May, 1905) *
Enacted by ORDINANCE VII of 1905 as amended by Ordinance IX of
1946; Government Notice 67 of 1952; Act VI of 1955; Legal Notices: 4 of
1963, 8 of 1968; and Acts: XXV of 1968 and XXII of 1976.
Short title.
(Closing) Ordinance.
Power of Minister 
responsible for 
agriculture to close 
to the public 
government 
gardens or pleasure 
grounds. 
Amended by:
IX.1946.2;
L.N. 4  of 1963;
XXV.1968.2;
XXII. 1976.4.
2. The Minister responsible for agriculture may on such days
as he shall think fit close to the public any public government
garden or pleasure ground or any part thereof, and may grant the
use of the same, either gratuitously or for payment, to any public
association, institution, or charity, or for any agricultural,
horticultural, or other show, or for any other public purpose, or may
use the same for any such show or purpose; and the admission to
the said garden or pleasure ground, or such part thereof, on the days
when the same shall be so closed to the public, may be either with
or without payment, as directed by the Minister responsible for
agriculture, or, with his consent, by the society or persons to whom
the use of the garden or pleasure ground, or such part thereof, may
be granted.
Period during 
which gardens or 
pleasure grounds 
may be closed.
Added by: 
IX.1946.3. 
Amended by: 
VI. 1955.2; 
L.N. 4 of 1963.
3. (1) Except in the case of the public government gardens or
pleasure grounds mentioned in the Schedule hereto, the days on
which public government gardens or pleasure grounds may be
closed shall not exceed twelve days in any one year, nor four
consecutive days on any one occasion:
  Provided that, in any year in which the Malta Trade Fair is held,
the number of days above-mentioned, in respect of the garden or
pleasure ground in which the fair is held, shall be twenty and ten
respectively.
(2) The Minister responsible for agriculture may, from time to
time, add other public government gardens or pleasure grounds to
the Schedule hereto or otherwise vary the Schedule hereto, in each
case by notice published in the Government Gazette.
Added by: 
IX.1946.4. 
Amended by: 
G.N. 67 of 1952; 
L.N. 8 of 1968.
SCHEDULE
Silver Jubilee Playground in Gozo.
* See  Proclamation No. VIII of 1905.
