S.L. 234.58 Art. 4Passenger counting.

(1) The company shall ensure that all persons on board a Maltese passenger ship which departs from a port located in an EU Member State are counted before that passenger ship departs.

(2) Before the passenger ship departs, the number of persons on board shall be communicated to the master of the ship and, either reported by appropriate technical means in the single window established pursuant to Article 5 of Directive 2010/65/EU, or communicated to the Registrar-General by means of the Automatic Identification System:

Provided that, by derogation from the aforementioned paragraph, such information may continue to be communicated to the company's passenger registrar or to the shore-based company system that performs the same function, until 20 December 2023.