The juridical nature of administrative measures

Abstract

During the last five years, there has been a proliferation in the number of new administrative sanctions created by statute when contrasted with the post-independence period up to the year 2000. A comparion of the administrative sanctions adopted during the past five years with the number of depenalised criminal offences during the period 1964 to 2005, indicates that In the first five years of this century there has been quite a substantial increase in the creation of administrative offences. This numerical abundance of administrative sanctions in Maltese law, whether primary or subsidiary, has brought about the evolution of a new branch of administrative law which can be termed 'Administrative Sanctions'. [Excerpt from the Introduction]