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ACT No. xn of 1986 AN A CT further to amend the Civil Code (Cap. 23).
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
I assent.
(L.S.)
AGATIiA B ARBAJI;A
18th April. 1986
ACT No. xn of 1986
AN A CT further to amend the Civil Code (Cap. 23).
BE IT ENACTED by the President. by and witb the advice and
consent of the House of Representatives, in th is present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows; -
I. This Act may be cited as the Civil Code (Amendment) Act,
1986 and shall be read and construed as one witb the Civil Code, here in.
aftcr referred 10 as "the principal law".
E~tent of Amendment
Enactment
In subsection (3) of se<:tion 24. for the words
Public Registry Act,
"or subsection (4) of section 106" there shall be
subs tituted the words "or subsections (4) and (5)
of section 106".
Passed by the House of Rcpresentativc!; at Sitting No. 337 of the 16th A pril, 1986.
DANtEL M1CALLEF
Speak.er
C. MIFSUD
Clerk to Ihe House 0/ Re preserualiws
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Immediately after subsection (4) of se<:tion 106 of the principal Amend""'"1 of
law there shall be added the following new subsection;
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (I) of
"(5)
this section. a natural child born and acknowledged by the father,
before the fint day of January. 1966 and who is neither known by
the surname of the mother nor has assumed the surname of
his father in virtue of subsection (2) (b) of tbis section, or the descen.
dants of such child. may retain the surname, being a surname other
than that of the mOlher or of the father. which the child has assumed
and which shall be declared by the Court that he has always borne.
and the proviso to paragraph (bl of subsection (2) of this section shall
apply to such declaration.".
Subsection (2) of section 276 of the principal law is hereby A......,dmtot 01
repealed.
><OIioo 276 of lbe
I n subsection (2) of section 315 of the principal law for the Am<od"","! of
words "Form C' there sha ll be substituted the words "Form CC".
S. In subsection (l ) of section 2157 of the principal Jaw. for the Amendme"! of
words "besides the particulars stated in the registration of the debt or oectioo
cla im assigned " there shall be substituted the words "the progressive
number and the year of the registration," .
~(ion 2170 of the principal law shall be amended w; follows
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(a) paragraph (a) thereof shaU be deleted;
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(b) paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) thereof shall be respectively
renumbered (a), (h) and (c); and
(c) in paragraph (a) thereof, as renumbered, after the word
"number" there shall be inserted the words "and the year",
In Pan II of the Schedule to the principa l law, fOlr the words
" FORM C" relating \0 section 315 of that law. !bere shall be substituted
Ihe words "FO RM CC",
The coaClmem mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to
this Act shall have effocl subject to the amendments specified in relation
thereto in the second column of that Schedule.
L-.artikoli 5 u 6 ta' dan I·AII ghandhom jitqiesu li bdew isebbu
fI-ewwe1 ta' Jannar. 1980.
Sections 5 and 6 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into
force nn the finl day of January, \980.