Birkirkara local council is expected to challenge a legal notice which could be interpreted as reserving locality skips for residents only.

Mayor Joanne Debono Grech said the legal notice was “nonsensical” and was not in sync with other measures councils were taking to keep their localities clean.

“We have instructed the council lawyer to look into this legal notice and the matter will be discussed in the first council meeting,” she said.

The legal notice, which was enacted in November 2000, seems to be one of those laws which people know little about. It was flagged up earlier this week when Times of Malta reported that a warden had fined a man from Fgura €46 for disposing of a bag of rubbish close to his in-laws’ residence in Birkirkara.

The warden told the man that there was a law that prevented him from throwing away garbage in that skip if he did not live in the locality.

mxuereb@timesofmalta.com

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