Cap. 220 Art. 152Regulations as to use of land and sea areas for ranges and like purposes.

(1) Where any land belonging to or administered by the

Government (whether held by the Government or not) or held by the Government under any title whatsoever, or where any area of the sea within the territorial or internal waters of Malta, other than the Grand Harbour, Marsamxett Harbour and Marsaxlokk Bay, or where both such land or such area of sea, is appropriated for a weapon firing range or for training or practice in the use of any weapons of war or for experiments connected with any weapons of war, the Minister may make regulations for the use of such land or sea for the purposes for which it is appropriated and for securing the public against danger arising from such use.

(2) Regulations made under this article may prohibit all intrusion on the said lands or sea and all obstruction of the said use thereof; but no restriction of the use of the sea under this article shall be imposed further or otherwise than is necessary for the purpose to which an area of the sea is appropriated or in such way as to interfere unreasonably with any public right.

(3) Where by or under any regulation made under this article the public is allowed to use any of the said lands, regulations under this article may also provide for the government of such lands and the regulation of their use when so used by the public, for the preservation of order and the prevention of nuisances, obstructions, encampments, and encroachments thereon, and for the prevention of any injury to the same.

(4) Nothing in any regulation made under this article shall restrict the free exercise by any person of his rights of ownership or of user over any immovable property, or of other rights annexed thereto.

(5) In this article the expression "public right" means any right of navigation, anchoring, grounding, fishing, bathing, crossing, walking or recreation.

(6) Any person who contravenes any provision of regulations made under this article shall be liable on conviction to a fine (ammenda) not exceeding twenty-three euro and twenty-nine cents (23.29).

(7) Article 4(5) and (6) shall apply to regulations made under this article as they apply to regulations made under that article.