Cap. 45 Art. 2Alien lepers prohibited from landing in Malta.

(1) No leper coming from any place outside Malta shall land at any of the ports of Malta.

(2) The provision of subarticle (1) shall not apply to persons born in Malta.

(3) The master or other person in charge of any vessel who suffers or permits or fails to prevent the landing from such vessel at any such port of any person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe to be a leper shall, on conviction, be liable to the punishments established for contraventions.

(4) Every leper so landing as aforesaid may by warrant of the

President of Malta be committed to a hospital designated therein and there detained for such time as may be fixed in the warrant.

(5) Every leper so landing as aforesaid may be brought before a magistrate of the Courts of Magistrates, who may examine such leper and any other witness on oath, concerning the place from which such leper came to Malta, and may cause such leper to be removed to such place in such manner as the President of Malta may direct.

(6) The reasonable cost of such inquiry and removal shall be borne and paid by the master or other person in charge of the vessel by which such leper was brought to Malta, or by whose act or default such leper was permitted to land.

(7) Such cost shall be recoverable as a civil debt due to the Government by proceedings before the Civil Court, First Hall.

(8) For the purposes of the preceding provisions of this article the decision whether a person is a leper shall rest with the Administrative Review Tribunal established in terms of article 5 of the Administrative Justice Act and the provision of this Act shall apply to such an appeal.

*This Ordinance has been repealed by Act XXVI of 2024. †See Proclamation No. XVII of 1919.

(9) The said board shall respect and apply the principles of good administrative behaviour laid down in article 3 of the

Administrative Justice Act.