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ACT No. VII of 2012 AN ACT to amend the European Union Act, Cap. 460.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
I assent.
G EORGE A BELA
(L.S.)
President
22nd June, 2012
ACT No. VII of 2012
AN ACT to amend the European Union Act, Cap. 460.
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:-
The short title of this Act is the European Union Short title.
(Amendment) Act, 2012 and this Act shall be read and construed as
one with the European Union Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Cap. 460.
principal Act".
Sub-article (2) of article 2 of the principal Act shall be Amendment of
article 2 of the
amended as follows
principal Act.
(a)
the words "If the Prime Minister by order declares
that a treaty specified in the order being a treaty entered into by
Malta after the 16th April, 2003 is to be regarded as one with
the Treaty as herein defined, the order shall be conclusive that it
is to be so regarded:"
there shall be substituted the words
"If the Prime Minister by order declares that a treaty
specified in the order being a treaty entered into by Malta after
the 16th April, 2003, or that a Decision of the European Council
specified in the order, being a decision that amends the Treaty,
is to be regarded as one with the Treaty as herein defined, the
order shall be conclusive that it is to be so regarded:"; and
(b)
in the second proviso the words
"and the debate thereon in the Committee by the Chairman
and the House shall upon the presentation of the Report of the
Standing Committee proceed immediately to vote on the motion
without debate."
shall be substituted by the words
"and the debate thereon in the Committee by the Chairman.
Following the presentation of such report the House shall
proceed to debate and vote on such motion.".
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 492 of the
20th June, 2012.
M ICHAEL F RENDO
Speaker
R AYMOND S CICLUNA
Clerk to the House of Representatives