ACT No. XXIII or 1992 AN A CT to umtnd IM /lousing An.

(L.S.)

C ENSU TAliON!!.

President

111h December.]992

ACT No. XXIII or 1992

AN A CT to umtnd IM /lousing An.

BE IT ENACTE D by the President, by and with Ihe advice and

a.m5ent of tl'!e Home of Represematives. in Ihis present Parliame nt

as5Cmbled .• nd by the authority of the same. as follows:-

(1 ) This Act may beriled as the Housing(Amendmenl) Act.

1992, and shall be read and oon~roed wilh the I I00000i ng Act, as re-

en acted in virtue of the Housing (Exte nsion) ACI. 1992. and as

contained in Ihe Schedule Iherclo. the said Housi llg Act is hereinafter

referred to as ~ llI e principal Act",

(2) This Act shall be dee med 10 have come in to force On the

13th February , 1992.

J mmedialely afu: r 5«lioo 20 0( the principal An . there shall be

added the following new section

. ' . RJ"" ·wc·,· any

"20A. Notwit hStanding anything contained in Ihis or

other law , a right to appeal to the Court of Appeal

d~ision

whether On a point of law or offact shall lie from the

of any board. tribunal or cou rt . whereby the amount of any

compensation due under th is Act hu been assessed , and such

appeal shall be eme red in the same manner and within the

same term as an appeal on a point of la ... to the same court is

to be emered from a decision of 50ch board . tribunal or

court." .

J. Where the compensation for the possession of any building has Tr~

been fi~ed in accordance with the Housing Act. prior to theoominginto ~.

force o f this A~t , and where the building is on the date of coming into

fol«' of this Act , still in the posSC5Sion of the Director for Social

Housing. rhe decision fixingtheuidrompcnulionshall for the purpose

of any appeal which may be entered under sc:aion 20A of Ihe principal

Act lIS inlroc:luced by Ihis Act , be dccmed 10 have been delivered o n a

dale bein, one calenda r month after Ihe dale of the enactment of this

Act

Provided that IK .. n hing in Ihis sc:aion shall be dee med 10 dfen

any appeal 10 the Coun of Appeal an I poim ofla'" .. -hich ha. become I

TO judicQtll prior \0 the enaC1Jncnl of Ihis Act

Provided (unher lhal any new rale of compensation

established in virt ue of ... y appeal entered in virtue of Ihis 5e(1ion shall

in no case be with dfect from a dale prior \0 the 13th February. 1992,

Passed by the House of Representatives al Si uiog No . 75 of the ISI IXcember.

1992. lAWRENCE GONZI

S~Qk.tr

RICHARD J . CAUCHI

Ckrk. 10 the /louse of Reprewuotiws.

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