Cap. 511 Art. 33Power to make regulations. Cap. 12.

The Minister may make regulations to give effect to any of the foregoing provisions of this Act, or to regulate or otherwise provide for any matter relating to the Malta Libraries and its libraries, and may in particular, but without prejudice to the generalities of the foregoing and the provisions of this Act, make regulations for any of the following purposes:

(a) to provide for the contents, compilation and publication of the Malta National Bibliography;

(b) to establish the scope, definitions, procedures, conditions, duties and penalties for the effective implementation of the obligation of the legal deposit, and to provide for the proper safeguarding, of published documents and online electronic documents, whether they have or not a physical form;

(c) to provide for the procedures and conditions for the downloading, copying, storage and the legal deposit of electronic hand-held and on line published documents, including those with access conditional to payment;

(e) the involvement of local councils in the promotion and management of libraries;

(f) the proper management and preservation of records and the manner in which the public may have access to the documents, records and objects in the libraries;

(g) the standards and the manner in which copies, photocopies, and other reproductions of manuscripts, documents or other record in the libraries may be issued;

(h) to establish the fees and dues which may be payable by or under, or for services rendered pursuant to the provisions of this Act;

(i) to establish the conditions and procedures for the admission, access, safety, and use by the public of any library to which this Act applies and for the loan of any library material, and for the powers necessary by the National Librarian to enforce such conditions and procedures;

(j) to ensure the better fulfilment of the functions of the Malta Libraries, the National Librarian, and the Council;

(k) to regulate the appointment of officers and employees with the Malta Libraries;

(l) to regulate movement of documents, publications and records, and to establish guidelines for best preservation practice;

(m) to provide for any forms or procedures which may be necessary or expedient and for which no express procedure is contained in this Act;

(n) to add, substitute or amend any Schedule annexed to this Act;

(o) to establish penalties not exceeding a fine (multa) of five hundred euro (€500) to which a person contravening the provisions of any Schedules to this Act or of any regulations made under this Act shall become liable;

(p) to provide for the imposition of administrative fines or sanctions, and for their enforcement, upon any person acting in contravention of the provisions of this Act or of any Schedule thereto or of any regulations made thereunder, including the provision that any such administrative fine shall when it becomes final constitute an executive title for the effects and purposes of Title VII of Part I of Book Second of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure: prescribed under this Act for the better carrying out of any of the provisions of this Act.