ACT No. 11 of 1-1983 AN ACT further to amend the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act, Cap. 92.

I assent.

(L.S.)

AGATHA BARBARA

President

9th March, 1983

ACT No. 11 of 1-1983

AN ACT further to amend the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives

Act, Cap. 92.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representati\IC5, in this present par1iament

assemlbled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

(1) This Act may be .cited as the Notarial Profession and

Notarial Arch ives (Amendment) Act, 1983, and shall be read and

construed as one with the Notarial Profes!,!on and Notarial Archives

Act, hereinafter referred .to as "the principal Act" .

. (2) This Att shaH have effect from sueh date as the Minister

respollsible for jU&tiee may by notiee in the Gazette appoint.

Immediately af.ter the proviso to seotion 18 of the principal

Avt there shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided further tha t where the office of N otary Public

in .the Land Department is vaeant, the Keeper of the Malta

Arehives shall ex o/fido be the Keeper of the deeds and registers

of flormer Notaries in the Land Department.".

Immediately after section 52 of the principal Aet there shall

~ added the foBowing new sections

52A. (1) A Notary residing in the Island of Malta

"Duties of

who receives any act mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b), (C), (e),

Notaries

~':i::fta (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) of swbsection (1) of section 50 of

this Aet relating to immovables situated in the Islands of

receiving

Gozo and Comino shaB, witħin one month from the da,te of

certain

deed~

the aet, deliver an authentieated eapy of sueh aet and of the

~elatLve bt ? documents annexed thereto to the Keeper of the Arehives in

unmova les

Malta.

.

situated

in · Gozo

(2) The Keeper of the Arehives in Malta shaH

Of

give a recejpt for such copy and the Notary shall annexsueh

Comino.

receipt to the original act.

(3) The Keeper of the Archives in Malta shall, nQt

later ltihan the fifteenth day of each month, deliver the copies

received in terms of subsection (l) of this section between

the first and 1ast day of the :preceding monfh to the Keeper of

the Archives in G02]o.

(4)' The Keeper of the Archives in Gozo shall keep

the copie's received in any one year in terms of this SectiOtl

in a bound rvolume or volumes, and shall ,there in indude an

index of the copies showing the name of the Notary receiving

the act, the date of the act and the parties thereto.

(5) The Keeper of the Archives in Gozo shall

have, witih respect to ~he copies received in temlS of this

section, the dutielS which are conferred on him with respect

to originaI acts.

52B. (l) A Notary residing in one of the !'sIands of

Gozo and Comino, who receives any act mentioned in para-

graphs (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), (h) and <H of subsection (1) of

section 050 of this Act re1ating to i:mmovables situated in the

IsIand of Malta. shalI, within the time specified in sU!bsection

(l) of section 52A of t!his Act deIiver to the Keeper of the

relatrve btol Archive's in Gozo an autħenticated copy of such act.

IInn10va es

(2) The provisions of subsections (2), (3), (4) and

(5) of section 52A of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply

to the copies referred to in subsection (1) of this section.".

Section 57 !()if the principa.J Act shall be amended as follows

(a) for subsection (3) thereof there shall be substituted the

foHowing

"(3) No erasure shaH be made and there shalI be

no cancellation or addition of more than twenty words in 0'[

to any one act in the register

Provided tihat where any words are cancelled and

'Suh&tituted by any one or more words, account shall only be

taken ·of the numlber of words cancelled or words added in

'SubstHuti'On thereof, whichever is the !greater."; and

(Ib) immedi'ately .after the proviso to subsection (4) thereof

there shall be added the foIlowing new proviso

"Pmvided further that cancellations and additions

referred to in subsection (3) of this section may be hand-

written notwithstandjng that the register is typewritten or

printed.".

For section 60 of the principal Act there shall be substituted

the foHowing

60. No volume of the originaI acts or of the registers

"Volumes

shall contain more than seven hundred and fifty pages.".

In subsection (1) of section 66 of the principal Act for the

words "except to the testator himself or to a person holding a special

authority from him , duly authenticated, or to any other person in the

presence of the testator." there shall be substituted the words "except to

the testator himself, or to a person holding a special authority from him ,

which authority shall be daly authenticated and shall be kept by the

Notary in a register for the purpose, where the authority shall be num-

bered. A reference to the number of the authority shall be made on the

wiI1, the act or the register.".

Section 72 of the principal Act shall be amended as foHows

(a) immediately at the end of subsection (4) of section 72

there shall be added the words "which abstract shall be retained by

the Notary"; and

(b) immediately after subsection (4) thereof there shall be

added the following new subsection

.

Where a copy of a will, whether authenticated

"(5)

Of not, is issued -

(a)

the notary shall state in writing at the end

thereof

to whom such copy has been issued;

(i)

(i i) where the copy has not been issued to the

testa tor himself, that he has ascertained either that

the testa tor is dead or that the person to whom the

copy is to be given is duly authorised to receive it;

(b) when the testator is sti1l alive, the person to

whom the copy is given shaH on receipt thereof sign such

copy in the presence of the notary ~".

Immediately after paragraph (d) of section 95 of the principal

Act there Shalllbe .added the foHowing new paragraph

the copies deposited in terms of section 52B of this

Immediately after 'Paragratph (d) of section 96 of the principal

Act there shall be added the fol1owing new paragraph

section 96

of the

the copiels deposited in 'terms of section 52A of this

principal Act.

Section 108 of the prindpal Act shaB be amendcd as

Amendment of

sectFon 108

of the

(a)

the present provision shall be renumbered as sU!bsec.tion

(b) immediately after sUlbsection (l) thereof there shaH be

added .the following new subsection

"(2) Unless the .act cons.ti,tutes a ,graver offence

under any other law, .any person who enters or remains in the

Archives outside such days and hours without the permission

of the Archivist or of the !Court of lRevision of Notarial Acts,

shall be guilty of an offence and ShaH on conviction be liable

to the punishment esta:blished 'for contra,ventions.".

(cl) prescribe the manner In wħlch reproductions

made by microfi1ming and copies thereof may ibe authen-

ticated;

(e) rprescribe the fees and other charges i{:o be

levied and paid in respect \Of anyt!hing done under the

foregoing provilsions;

(.f) provide for any matter incidental or suppIJ.e-

mentary to any of the fore:going provisions.

(2) Any duplicate regi's.ter or new register made

in accordance with regulations made under subsection (1)

0If this section or under the Duplicate Register of Notarial

Acts (Emergency) Regulations, 1942, shall for all intents

and purposes, replace !the original acts or registers.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 90 of the 8th March, 1983.

DANIEL MICALLEF

Sveaker

C. MIFSUD

Clerk to the House of Representatives

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Mitbugħ fl-U.ċ . S.

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Gavernment Printing Pre.s

lO9. (1) L-Arkivilt jista' jagliti direttivi biex jinzamm

I-ocdni fil-1okal tant il-kontroll tiegliu u biex ikun hemm

sigurta u liarsien mill-periklu f'dak iI-bini.

(2) KuIl persuna li ma tobdix xi direttivi mogliti-

ja skond is~ubartikolu (1) ta' dan l-artikolu tkun, sakemm

I-eg1'imiI rna jikkostitwixxix reat iktar gravi, liatja ta' reat u

teheI, meta tinsab liatja, il-piena stabbilita ~naI kontrayv(fnz-

jOnijiet." •

Minflok l-artikolu 123 ta' l-Att prinċi pali għandu jidħol dan

123. (1) In-nutar imħarrek kif jingħad hawn fuq

għandu jidher jew personalment jew bil-mezz ta' mandatarju

speċjali, u jipproduċi lir-Reġistratur tal-Qor~i l-attijiet, ir-

reġistri II l-indiċijiet speċifikati fit-taħrika; u kif issir dik il-

produzzjoni l-Qorti tgħaddi għall-verifika tagħhom.

(2) Flimkien ma' l-attijiet, reġistri u indiċijiet,

in-nutar jew il-mandatarju tiegħu għandu jipproduċi t-taħrika

relattiva lir-Reġistratur tal-Qorti li għandu jirreġistra fuqha

l-volumi prodotti skond dik it-taħrika. Dik it-taħrika għandha

tinżamm min-nutar jew mi1l-mandatarju tiegħu . ".

Minflok is-subartikolu (l) ta' l-artikolu 133 ta' l-Att prinċipali Emenda ta'

għandu jidħol dan li ġej

"(1) In-Nutar jew l-Arkivist li jikser id-disposizzjonijiet ta' prinċipali .

l-artikolu 11 , tal-paragrafu (d) ta' l-artikolu 12, tal-paragrafi (a), (i)

u (k) tas-subartikolu (l) ta' l-artikolu 28, ta' l-artikoli mill-34 sat-38,

ta' l-artikolu 44, tal-paragrafu (b) tas-subartikolu (l) ta' l-artikolu 52,

ta' l-artikoli 52A, 52B, 53, 56, 58, 62, 66, 67, 98, 102 u 106 jeħel

għal kull kontravvenzjoni, ammenda ta' mhux iżjed minn tletin

lira." .

Minflok l-artikolu 154 ta' l-Att prinċipali għandu jidħol dan

"Setgħa'.

Il-Ministru responsabbli għall-ġustizzja jista' prinċipali.

154. (l)

~a11-egħmJl jagħmel regolamenti b'mod ġenerali sabiex jitwettqu d-dispo-

;~olamen,ti. sizzjonijiet ta' dan l-Att u b'mod partikolari iżda bla ħsara

għall-ġenerali ta ta' dak li ntqal qabel, jista' b'dawk ir-regola-

menti

(a) jipprovdi sabiex isiru reġistri duplikati ta' kull

attijiet nutarili oriġnali li jkunu mitlufa, distrutti jew

danneġġati, u biex jiġi sostitwit xi reġistru mitluf, distrutt

jew danneġġat;

(b) jippreskrivi l-mod li bih dawn ir-reġistri dupli-

kati jew ir-reġistri ġodda jkunu preparati u awtentikati;

(ċ) jippreskrivi li attijiet jew reġistri depożitati fl-

Arkivji jiġu riprodotti permezz ta' microfilming, u l-mod

li bih dawn ir-riproduzzjonijiet għandhom isiru, jinħażnu

u jkunu aċċessibbli għall-pubbliku;

(d) jippreskrivi l-mod kif riproduzzjonijiet magħ­

mula permezz ta' microfilming u l-kopji tagħhom jistgħu

jiġu awtentikati;

(e) jippreskrivi d-drittijiet u l-ħlasijiet oħra li għan­

dhom jinġabru u jitħallsu dwar kull ħaġa magħmula taħt

id-disposizzjonijiet ta' hawn fuq;

(f) jipprovdi għal kull ħaġa inċidentali jew suppli-

mentari għal kull waħda mid-disposizzjonijiet ta' hawn

fuq.

(:2) kui! reġistru rlupiikat Jew registru ġdid li Jkun

sar skond regolamenti magħmula taħt is-subartikolu (1) ta' dan

l-artikolu jew taħt ir-Regolamenti ta' 1-1942 dwar ir-Reġistru

Duplikat ta' l-Attijiet Nutarili f'Emerġenza. għandhom għall­

għanijiet u finijiet kollha, ikunu flok l-attijiet jew ir-reġistri

. oriġinali,",

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Mgħoddi mill-Kamra tad-Deputati fis-Seduta Nru. 90 tat-8

ta' Marzu, 1983.

DANIEL MICALLEF

Speaker

C, MIFSUD

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