AN ACT to amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.
BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. (1) The short title of this Act is the Civil Code
(Amendment) Act, 2011, and this Act shall be read and construed as
one with the Civil Code, hereinafter referred to as "the Code":
Provided that the provisions of article 11 and of article 12
of this Act shall not be included in the Code but shall continue to be
in force as part of this Act provided however that they shall also be
reproduced insofar as article 11 is concerned in a footnote at the end
of Sub-Title IV of Title I of Book First of the Civil Code entitled ‘Of
Divorce’ and insofar as article 12 is concerned in a footnote with
reference to article 66B of the Code.
Short title and
commencement.
Cap. 16.
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Amendment of
article 3B of the
Code.
Amendment of
article 54 of the
Code.
(2) This Act shall come into force on 1st October 2011.
2. Article 3B of the Code shall be amended as follows:
(a) the whole article 3B shall be re-numbered as
subarticle (1) thereof;
(b) immediately after sub-article (1) thereof as renumbered,
there shall be added the following new sub-articles:
"(2) The obligation of the parents to
provide maintenance according to sub-article
(1) also includes the obligation to continue to
provide adequate maintenance to children,
according to their means, and where it is not
reasonably possible for the children, or any of
them, to maintain themselves adequately, who:
(a) are students who are
participating in full-time education,
training or learning and are under the age
of twenty-three; or
(b) have a disability, as defined in
Cap. 413.
the Equal Opportunities (Persons with
Disability) Act, whether such disability is
physical or mental.
(3) The obligations provided in sub-
article (1) also bind a person acting in loco
parentis with regard to another person’s child,
by reason of the marriage of such person to a
parent of that child, where the other parent of
that child, shall have, at any time before or
during the marriage, died or was declared as an
absentee according to Title VII of Book First of
this Code, or is unknown:
Provided that the provisions of this sub-
article shall be without prejudice to the
obligations of the natural parents of the child
and shall in any case be without prejudice to the
provisions of article 149.".
3. Article 54 of the Code shall be amended as follows:
(a) sub-article (2) thereof shall be substituted by the
following:
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Cap. 413.
Cap. 318.
Cap. 318.
"(2) The amount of maintenance referred
to in sub-article (1), and the maintenance due to
children in the event of separation, shall be
determined having regard to the means of the
spouses, their ability to work and their needs,
and regard shall also be had to all the other
circumstances of the spouses and of the
children, including the following:
(a) the needs of the children, after
considering all their circumstances;
(b) any disability, as defined in
the Equal Opportunities (Persons with
Disability) Act, whether such disability is
physical or mental;
(c) circumstances of illness which
are of such seriousness and gravity as to
compromise the ability of the spouses or
of the children to maintain themselves;
(d) whether the ability of the
party to whom maintenance is due to have
earnings of whatever nature was
diminished by reason of that party having,
during the marriage, taken care of the
household, the other party and the
upbringing of the children of the
marriage;
(e) every income or benefit which
the spouses, or any of them, receive
according to law, other than Social
Assistance that is not contributory which
is paid to them under the Social Security
Act:
Provided that for the purposes of this
paragraph the disability pension payable
in terms of article 27 of the Social
Security Act shall be taken into
consideration;
(f) the accommodation
requirements of the spouses and of the
children;
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Amendment of
article 55 of the
Code.
(g) the amount which would have
been due to each of the parties as a
benefit, including, but not limited to, a
benefit under a pension scheme, which by
reason of the separation, that party will
forfeit the opportunity or possibility of
acquiring.";
(b) sub-articles (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) thereof shall be
renumbered as sub-articles (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9) respectively
and immediately following sub-article (2) as amended, there
shall be added the following:
"(3) The provisions of article 381(2) of
Cap. 12.
the Code of Organisation and Civil Procedure
shall apply mutatis mutandis provided that the
said article shall be construed to mean that,
even where no demand is made by a party to
whom maintenance is due, either for that party
or for the children, for the application of the
provisions of that article, the court may apply
the said article out of its own motion.
(4) In granting maintenance, the court
may also provide for the manner in which the
same may increase from time to time."; and
(c) in sub-articles (6) and (8) thereof as renumbered, for
the words "in-sub-article (3)" there shall be substituted the
words "in sub-article (5)".
4. Article 55 shall be amended as follows:
(a) sub-articles (1), (2), and (3) thereof shall be
renumbered as sub-articles (6), (7) and (8) respectively and
immediately before sub-article (6) thereof as renumbered, there
shall be added the following new sub-articles:
"(1) The court may, at any time during the cause
for separation, upon the demand of any of the spouses,
order the cessation of the community of acquests or of the
community of residue under separate administration
existing between the spouses.
(2) The order for the cessation of the community
as provided in sub-article (1) shall be given by means of a
judgement from which every party shall have a right of
appeal, without requiring permission from the court for
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this purpose.
(3) The order of cessation shall have effect
between the spouses from the date of the judgement on
appeal or, if no appeal is entered, from the date when the
time allowed for the appeal lapses, and it shall remain
valid even if the cause for separation is discontinued.
(4) Prior to ordering the cessation of the
community as provided in this article, the court shall
consider whether any of the parties shall suffer a
disproportionate prejudice by reason of the cessation of the
community before the judgement of separation.
(5) The order of cessation under this article shall,
at the expense of the party who demanded such cessation,
be notified to the Director of Public Registry and it shall
have effect as if the cessation of the community of acquests
or of the community of residue under separate
administration were made by public deed.";
(b) for sub-article (6) thereof as renumbered, there shall
be substituted the following:
"(6) Unless the court, in its discretion, upon the
demand of one of the parties, shall have ordered the
cessation of the community of acquests or of the
community of residue under separate administration
existing between the parties at the time of commencement
of the cause for separation, on separation being
pronounced, the court shall direct that the community of
acquests or the community of residue under separate
administration shall cease as from the day on which the
judgement becomes res judicata."; and
(c) in sub-article (8) thereof as renumbered, for the
words "of sub-article (2)", there shall be substituted the words
"of sub-article (7)".
5. For sub-articles (1) and (2) of article 55A of the Code,
there shall be substituted the following:
"(1) In pronouncing the judgement of separation, the
court shall on the demand of either of the parties, order,
according to circumstances:
(a) that any one of the parties shall be entitled to
reside in the matrimonial home, to the exclusion of the
Amendment of
article 55A of
the Code.
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other party, for the period and under those conditions as it
considers appropriate; or
(b) that the matrimonial home is to be sold,
where it is satisfied that the parties and their children shall
have adequate alternative accommodation, and that the
proceeds of the sale shall be assigned to the parties as it
considers appropriate; or
(c) where the matrimonial home belongs to both
parties, to assign the matrimonial home to any one of the
parties, which party shall compensate the other party for
the financial loss suffered:
Provided that, in every case, the court shall consider
the following:
(a) the best interest of the minor children,
including the impact that there may be on the minor
children if the court were to grant a demand made
according to this article;
(b) the welfare of the parties and of the children;
and
(c) whether the parties have, or, whether their
means and abilities permit them to have, another place
where to reside.
(2) The court may, upon a demand of either party, vary a
decision taken by it under paragraph (a) of sub-article (1),
where there is a substantial change in circumstances.".
Amendment of 6. In sub-article (2) of article 56 of the Code, for the words
article 56 of the
"in the custody of third parties or in alternative forms of care" there
Code.
shall be substituted the words "in the custody of persons in loco
parentis, of third parties, or in alternative forms of care".
Addition of 7. Immediately after article 56 of the Code, there shall be
article 56A in
added the following new article:
the Code.
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"Exlcusion of 56A. The Court may, for grave reasons, at
custody.
any time during the cause for separation or
when the parties are separated, upon the
demand of one of the parties, declare that the
other party is not fit to have the custody of the
minor children of the parties, and where the
Court issues such a declaration, the party so
declared, upon the death of the other party,
shall not be entitled to assume the custody of
the minor children without the authorisation of
the Court.".
8. Article 57 of the Code shall be amended as follows:
(a) in the marginal note thereof, for the words "Right of
father and mother", there shall be substituted the words "Right
of spouses";
(b) in sub-article (1) thereof, for the words "the children
are entrusted, the father and mother shall maintain", there shall
be substituted the words "the minor children are entrusted, the
spouses shall maintain";
(c) in sub-article (2) thereof, for the words "in which the
father and mother shall have access to the children", there shall
be substituted the words "in which the spouses shall have access
to the children"; and
(d) in sub-article (3) thereof, for the words "to forbid
such access if it may be detrimental to the welfare of the
children", there shall be substituted the words "to forbid such
access to their minor children if it may be detrimental to the
welfare of such minors".
9. Immediately after Sub-Title III of Title I of Book First of
the Civil Code, there shall be added the following new sub-title::
"Sub-title IV
OF DIVORCE
Divorce. 66A. (1) Each of the spouses shall have
the right to demand divorce or dissolution of
the marriage as provided in this Sub-Title. It
shall not be required that, prior to the demand
of divorce, the spouses shall be separated from
each other by means of a contract or of a
judgement.
Amendment of
article 57 of the
Code.
Addition of new
Sub-Title to the
Code.
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Conditions
required for
divorce.
(2) The divorce or dissolution of the
marriage shall be granted by virtue of a
judgement of the competent civil court, upon
the demand of one or the other of the spouses,
or by a decree of the same court where the
spouses shall have agreed that their marriage
should be dissolved.
(3) All demands for divorce shall be
brought before the appropriate section of the
civil court as established by regulations made
by the Minister responsible for justice, and the
provisions of article 37 shall apply mutatis
mutandis. The decrees and judgements of
divorce shall be pronounced in open court.
(4) The court shall, in the decree or
judgement of divorce, order the Registrar of
Courts to notify the divorce of the parties to the
Director of Public Registry within the period
allowed for this purpose by the same court, so
that the same shall be registered in the Public
Registry.
66B. Without prejudice to the following
provisions of this article, divorce shall not be
granted except upon a demand made jointly by
the two spouses or by one of them against the
other spouse, and unless the Court is satisfied
that:
(a) on the date of commencement
of the divorce proceedings, the spouses
shall have lived apart for a period of, or
periods that amount to, at least four years
out of the immediately preceding five
years, or at least four years have lapsed
from the date of legal separation; and
(b) there is no reasonable
prospect of reconciliation between the
spouses; and
(c) the spouses and all of their
children are receiving adequate
maintenance, where this is due, according
to their particular circumstances, as
provided in article 57:
Provided that the spouses may, at any time,
renounce their right to maintenance:
Pronouncement of
divorce.
Divorce granted
upon the
application of one
of the spouses.
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Provided further that for purposes of this
paragraph, maintenance ordered by the court by
a judgement of separation or agreed to between
the spouses in a contract of separation, shall be
deemed to be adequate maintenance:
Provided further that a divorce pronounced
between spouses who were separated by a
contract or by a judgement shall not bring about
any change in what was ordered or agreed to
between them, except for the effects of divorce
resulting from the law.".
66C. After the court considers the
requirements of article 66B to have been
satisfied, the court shall hear and decide on the
demands made by the parties as provided in this
Sub-Title and it shall proceed to pronounce the
divorce of the parties.
66D. (1) Without prejudice to the other
provisions of this Sub-Title, where an
application for divorce is made by one of the
spouses, it shall not be necessary for the spouse
making the demand to impute to the other
party any fault leading to the making of such
demand.
(2) Where the spouses are already
separated by means of a contract or a court
judgement, the spouse making the demand for
divorce may only demand the dissolution of the
marriage. The other party may contest the
demand either by proving that the time period
provided in article 66B(a) has not yet lapsed or
by proving that the spouse demanding the
divorce has not paid maintenance that was due
as ordered by the court or agreed to in the
separation contract and that, if the demand for
divorce were to be accepted, it would be more
difficult for the said other party to obtain the
payment of maintenance. The Court shall not
grant the demand for divorce where any of the
said defences are shown to be valid.
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Consequences of
fault of spouse.
(3) Where the spouses are not separated
by means of a contract or a court judgement,
the spouse making the demand for divorce may,
together with the same demand, make all those
demands that are permissible in a cause for
separation in accordance with Sub-Title III of
this Title. The Court shall hear and determine
these demands as provided in the said
provisions mutatis mutandis. The other party
may, in addition to the defences mentioned in
previous sub-article, put forward all those
defences which that party would have been
entitled to make in a cause for separation.
(4) Where the spouses are not separated
by means of a contract or a court judgement,
the Court shall have mutatis mutandis all the
powers granted to it under Sub-Title III of this
Title with regard to orders which it is entitled to
give pendente lite.
(5) Notwithstanding the other provisions
of this article and only where the community of
acquests or the community of residue under
separate administration shall have ceased, the
parties shall have a right, in any case, if they
both agree, to divorce without liquidating the
assets which they hold in common.
66E. Without prejudice to the other
provisions of this Sub-Title, where the court, on
the demand of one of the parties, finds the other
party responsible for causing the breakdown of
the marriage for the reasons provided in articles
38, 40 and 41, the court may apply mutatis
mutandis the provisions of article 48 against
that party.
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Conversion of
separation
proceedings into
divorce
proceedings.
66F. (1) Each party in a cause for
separation may, at any time during the cause,
but not after the cause has been adjourned for
judgement, demand, by means of an
application, that the demand for separation
made in that cause be instead considered as a
demand for the pronouncement of divorce.
When such a claim is made, the court shall hear
the parties in order to verify that the conditions
stipulated in article 66B for the filing of a
demand for divorce are satisfied. The court
shall decide upon the said claim in a judgement
given in open court which shall not be subject
to appeal except together with the final
judgement.
(2) Any witnesses declared and
documents presented with the cause for
separation shall apply mutatis mutandis when
the said cause is converted into divorce
proceedings. This without prejudice to the
possibility that either party may produce further
documents and witnesses during the divorce
proceedings which are related to the demand
for divorce.
(3) Where neither party elects to
proceed as provided in sub-article (1) and
where a demand for separation has already been
made in accordance with Sub-Title III of this
Title and at least one of the parties, after the
making of that demand, makes a demand for
divorce, the demands for separation and for
divorce shall, in any case, be heard and decided
together by the same court in such a manner
that the connection of causes shall be applied
by the court without the necessity of any
demand by the parties.
(4) Either party, upon making a demand
for divorce, shall declare on oath whether either
that party or the other party have already made
a demand for separation under Sub-Title III of
this Title.
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Duties of
applicant’s
advocate.
66G. (1) The advocate assisting the
applicant shall, before commencing
proceedings according to article 66B, where the
spouses are not separated by means of a
contract or a court judgement:
(a) discuss the possibility of
reconciliation with the applicant and give
the applicant the names and addresses of
persons qualified to offer assistance in the
process of reconciliation between
spouses; and
(b) ensure that the applicant is
aware of the option of personal separation
as an alternative to divorce.
(2) The application for the
commencement of divorce proceedings shall:
(a) where the spouses are not
separated by means of a contract or a
court judgement, be accompanied by a
note in which the advocate confirms that
he has observed the requirements of sub-
article (1); or
(b) where the spouses are
separated by means of a court judgement,
be accompanied by a legal copy of the
judgement of separation or, where the
spouses are separated by means of a
contract, be accompanied by a legal copy
of the contract of consensual separation
which shows that the applicant and the
other party have been legally separated
for at least four years:
Provided that where the advocate assisting
a client in a cause for divorce shall not have
presented the said note, the copy of the
judgement of separation or of the contract of
consensual separation, as the case may be, the
advocate shall present these documents not
later than, or during, the first sitting in the
cause:
Duties of
respondent’s
advocate.
Powers of the
court.
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Provided further that, for purposes of this
article, "the applicant" means a person who
makes an application, who is preparing an
application or who intends making an
application to the Court in order to obtain a
divorce.
66H. (1) The advocate assisting the
respondent shall, without delay after receiving
instructions from the respondent about the case,
where the spouses are not separated by means
of a contract or a court judgement, discuss the
possibility of reconciliation with the respondent
and give the respondent the names and
addresses of persons qualified to offer
assistance in the process of reconciliation
between spouses.
(2) Where the spouses are not separated
by means of a contract or a court judgement,
the respondent’s reply to the application for
divorce shall be accompanied by a note in
which the advocate confirms that he has
observed the requirements of sub-article (1):
Provided that where the advocate assisting
a client in a cause for divorce shall not have
presented the said note, the advocate shall
present that note not later than, or during, the
first sitting in the cause.
66I. (1) Where a demand for divorce is
made to the competent civil court by either of
the spouses, or by both spouses after having
agreed that their marriage is to be dissolved,
and where the spouses are not separated by
means of a contract or a court judgement,
before granting leave to the spouses to proceed
for divorce, the Court shall summon the parties
to appear before a mediator, either appointed by
it or with the mutual consent of the parties, and
this for the purpose of attempting reconciliation
between the spouses, and where that
reconciliation is not achieved, and where the
spouses have not already agreed on the terms of
the divorce, for the purpose of enabling the
parties to conclude the divorce on the basis of
an agreement. The said agreement shall be
made on some or all or of the following terms:
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(a) the care and the custody of the
children;
(b) the access of the two parties to
the children;
(c) the maintenance of the
spouses or of one of them and of each
child;
(d) residence in the matrimonial
home;
(e) the division of the community
of acquests or the community of residue
under separate administration.
(2) Where a demand for divorce is made
to the competent civil court by either of the
spouses, or by both spouses after having agreed
that their marriage is to be dissolved, also
where the spouses are separated by means of a
contract or a court judgement, the court may,
where it considers it necessary to do so, either
on its own initiative or upon the request of the
mediator or of one of the spouses:
(a) appoint a children’s advocate
to represent the interests of the minor
children of the parties, or of any of them;
and
(b) hear the minor children of the
parties, or any of them, where it considers
it to be in their best interest to do so:
Provided that in any divorce proceedings
before the competent civil court as referred to
in this article, the court may order the parties to
present information about the payment of
children’s maintenance.
Powers of the
Minister.
Inadmissible
evidence.
Effects of
dissolution of
marriage.
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(3) The Court may, in the judgement
accepting the demand for divorce, and upon a
demand of that party to whom, during the
hearing of the cause, maintenance was due for
the party or for the children, from the other
party, order that the payment of maintenance
from the other party be safeguarded by means
of an appropriate and reasonable guarantee, in
accordance with the circumstances of the
parties. That guarantee shall not be of an
amount exceeding the amount of maintenance
for five years. The Court shall grant the said
order only where, from the evidence in the
cause, it results that during the hearing or prior
to the commencement of the cause, the party
from whom the guarantee is demanded was in
default in its obligation to pay maintenance, or
where there are serious objective circumstances
which demonstrate the necessity of the said
guarantee. A demand as provided for in this
sub-article may also be made at any time after
the said judgement, when maintenance is due.
66J. (1) The Minister may make
regulations establishing a register of persons
qualified to assist the parties involved in the
process of reconciliation..
(2) The Minister may make regulations
to establish the procedure related to the
mediation between the parties as provided in
this Sub-Title.
66K. Any verbal or written
communication made between the spouses or
made by a third party in the course of an
attempt at reconciliation or for the purpose of
an agreement being reached between the
spouses on some or all the terms mentioned in
article 66I(1), or any reference thereto, shall not
be admissible as evidence during divorce
proceedings.
66L. (1) When the competent civil
court pronounces a divorce between the
spouses, they shall have the right to remarry.
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(2) The prouncement of divorce shall
have no effect upon the rights and obligations
of the parties as parents in respect of their
children or upon any agreement reached
between the parties in respect of the custody of
their children, without prejudice to the
provisions of article 56A.
(3) The pronouncement of divorce shall
have no effect upon the rights of third parties
arising out of any agreement or obligation
already concluded, or still to be concluded, by
the divorced parties.
(4) The pronouncement of divorce as
provided in sub-article (1) has the following
effects:
(a) the obligation of cohabitation
of the parties shall, for all civil effects,
cease;
(b) article 62 shall apply mutatis
mutandis; and
(c) the rights of the spouses to the
succession of each other shall cease with
effect from the day when the decree or
judgement of divorce becomes res
judicata.
(5) The provisions of articles 54(7), 55A
and 56A shall apply mutatis mutandis where
the court considers it necessary to apply them
after having considered the reasons brought
before it.
(6) Without prejudice to the provisions
of article 66D(5), sub-articles (4) to (10) of
article 1332 and articles 1334, 1335, 1336,
1337 and 1340 shall apply mutatis mutandis to
the partition of property between the spouses.
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The effects of
remarriage.
Jurisdiction of the
court regarding
divorce.
66M. When the party receiving
maintenance, whether by virtue of an order of
the court or by virtue of a contract of
separation, remarries or enters into a personal
relationship which brings about an obligation
of maintenance by a third party in favour of that
party, the same party shall forfeit the right to
receive maintenance payable in respect of that
party by the other party in the divorce, with
effect from the date of the remarriage or of the
commencement of the aforesaid other
relationship. This article shall also apply in the
case where the parties had agreed in a contract
of separation that the agreement regarding
maintenance of the parties, or of either of them,
shall continue to have effect and cannot be
altered in the event of remarriage or of another
relationship as aforesaid of the party receiving
maintenance:
Provided that an order for maintenance that
has been made or authorised by the court to be
paid by means of a lump sum in favour of the
party who remarries or who enters into another
relationship as provided in this article shall
retain its effect notwithstanding that the party
in whose favour it is made remarries or enters
into another relationship as aforesaid.
66N. (1) Notwithstanding the
provisions of any other law, the courts of civil
jurisdiction shall have jurisdiction to hear and
determine a demand for divorce only if at least
one of the following requirements is satisfied:
(a) at least one of the spouses was
domiciled in Malta on the date of the
filing of the demand for divorce before
the competent civil court;
(b) at least one of the spouses was
ordinarily resident in Malta for a period of
one year immediately preceding the filing
of the demand for divorce.
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Amendment of
article 295 of
the Code.
Adaptation of
laws.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of
sub-article (1), where a cause for personal
separation in accordance with Sub-Title III of
this Title is pending before a court of civil
jurisdiction in Malta, including a cause being
heard at appeal stage, and the court has
jurisdiction to hear and determine that cause,
the courts of civil jurisdiction in Malta shall
also have jurisdiction to hear and determine a
demand for divorce between the same parties.".
10. In sub-article (1) of article 295 of the Code, for the words
"in the margin." there shall be substituted the words "in the margin:"
and immediately thereafter there shall be added the following
proviso:
"Provided that where a judgement or a decree of divorce
are given by the competent civil court, these shall be registered
in accordance with article 66A(3).".
11. (1) There shall be a Committee to be known as "the
Committee for the Adaptation of Laws due to the introduction of
Divorce".
(2) The Committee shall consist of a representative of the
Minister responsible for Justice, who shall be the Chairperson, and of
two other members one of whom shall be a representative of the
Minister responsible for Social Policy and the other shall be a
representative of the Minister responsible for Finance.
(3) The Committee shall have the function of advising the
Prime Minister on any amendments that have to be made to any law
or regulation which, directly or indirectly, refers to personal
separation between the spouses for the purpose of adapting the same
to the introduction of divorce.
(4) The Committee shall until the 29th February 2012 make a
report of its recommendations to the Prime Minister.
(5) Without prejudice to the powers of the Parliament of
Malta, the Prime Minister may, by means of an order made until the
30th June 2012 make any amendments to any law or regulation as
indicated in sub-article (3) as may appear to him to be necessary or
expedient and those amendments may be given retroactive effect as
from the 1st October 2011, saving any acquired rights.
(6) Any order made in accordance with the provisions of sub-
article (5) shall as soon as may be after it is made, be laid on the Table
of the House and shall have effect upon the lapse of the period of
twenty-eight days after it is so laid, unless the House within that
period resolves that the order be annulled or amended, whereupon
that order shall have no effect or shall have effect as amended, as the
case may be.
(7) In reckoning for the purposes of sub-article (6) any period
of twenty-eight days therein referred to, no account shall be taken of
any time during which the House is not in session or during which it
is adjourned for more than seven days.
12. A bill for an Act of Parliament amending, deleting or
substituting the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of article
66B as provided in clause 9 of this Act shall not be presented to the
President for his assent unless, not less than three nor more than six
months after its passage through the House, it has been submitted to
the electors qualified to vote for the election of members of the House
of Representatives and the majority of electors voting have approved
the bill:
Provided that it shall not be required to submit the bill to the
electors qualified to vote for the election of members of the House of
Representatives after its passage through the House as provided in
this article, if not less that three months and not more than six months
after the publication of the Bill in the Government Gazette after the
approval of its First Reading in the House of Representatives, the bill
was submitted to the electors qualified to vote for the election of
members of the House of Representatives and the majority of electors
voting have approved the bill.
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No.
xxxxxxxxxxx of the xxxxxxxxxxth July, 2011.
MICHAEL FRENDO
Speaker
PAULINE
ABELA
Clerk to the House of Representatives
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Special
procedure to
amend, repeal or
substitute
paragraphs (a),
(b) and (c)
article 66B in
clause 9 of this
Act.
