Billboards that had been declared illegal by the planning authority can be used by hunters for the referendum campaign because Mepa says this is allowed by law.
A spokesman for the Malta Environment and Planning Authority said when asked about the matter that a legal notice exempted such billboards from requiring a permit.
The exemption in question applied to an advertisement or the display thereof when it “related exclusively to a general election or to a referendum or to an election for local councils and which is displayed not earlier than three months before and not later than one month after the date on which such an election or referendum is held”.
Therefore, according to Mepa, in terms of the legal notice in question, these billboards are not illegal “from a planning point of view”.
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