ACT No. XVI of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Local Councils Act, to provide for the voting of persons that have attained the age of sixteen years.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

27th May, 2014

ACT No. XVI of 2014

AN ACT to amend the Local Councils Act, to provide for the

voting of persons that have attained the age of sixteen years.

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 Local Councils Short title.

(Amendment) Act, 2014 and this Act shall be read and construed as

one with the Local Councils Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Cap. 363.

principal Act".

Article 5 of the principal Act shall be substituted by the Substitution of

article 5 of the

following

principal Act.

" Persons

(1) Every citizen of Malta who,

entitled to vote.

after the publication of the last revised Local

Councils’ Electoral Register, attained or shall

attain the age of sixteen years up to the day and

including the day preceding the date on which

the election of 2015 onwards of the Local

Councils or the Administrative Committees is

to be held, and who has not been convicted of

any offence connected with the election of

members of Local Councils or of the

Administrative Committee shall be entitled to

vote in elections of the Local Councils and of

the Administrative Committees

Provided that, a person who has

attained the age of sixteen years but has not

attained the age of eighteen years, shall not be

able to carry out any other function in the

electoral process.

(2) Every person who is a national of a

Member State of the European Union who,

after the publication of the last revised

European Union Electoral Register, attained or

shall attain the age of sixteen years up to the

day and including the day preceding the date

on which the election of 2015 onwards of the

Local Council or the Administrative

Committee is to be held, and who has not been

convicted of any offence connected with the

election of members of Local Councils or of

the Administrative Committee shall be entitled

to vote in elections of the Local Councils and

of the Administrative Committees

Provided that, a person who has

attained the age of sixteen years but has not

attained the age of eighteen years, shall not be

able to carry out any other function in the

electoral process.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 151 of the

20th May, 2014.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk to the House of Representatives