Cap. 350 · Broadcasting Act (Cap. 350)
Cap. 350 ст. 34Unjust and unfair treatment or infringement of privacy.
PART IX
(1) Without prejudice to all its other powers and functions in accordance with the Constitution, and this Act, the Authority shall have the power and duty to consider complaints of -
(a) unjust or unfair treatment in sound or television programmes broadcast by any person providing broadcasting services in Malta;
(b) unwarranted infringement of privacy in, or in connection with the obtaining of material included in, sound or television programmes so broadcast.
(2) For the purposes of this article, complaints are to be submitted in writing by the person affected or by a person authorised by him to make the complaint for him.
(3) For the purposes of this article -"the person affected" -
(a) in relation to any unjust or unfair treatment as is mentioned in sub-article (1), means a participant in the programme in question who was the subject of that treatment or a person who, whether such a participant or not, had a direct interest in the subject-matter of that treatment;
(b) in relation to any such unwarranted infringement of privacy as is so mentioned, means a person whose privacy was infringed;
and "unjust or unfair treatment" includes treatment which is unjust or unfair because of the way in which material included in a programme had been selected or arranged.