ACT No. XXV of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

1st August, 2014

ACT No. XXV of 2014

AN ACT to amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.

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 Civil Code (Amendment) Short title.

Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the

Civil Code, hereinafter referred to as "the Code".

[Article 5(c)]

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 176 of the

15th July, 2014.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Sub-article (1) of article 238 of the Code shall be Amendment of

article 238 of

substituted by the following

the Code.

"(1) In the Public Registry Office in Malta and in Gozo,

there shall be kept four register books: one for the registration

of acts of birth, one for the registration of acts of marriage,

another for the registration of civil unions and the fourth for the

registration of acts of death.".

In sub-article (2) of article 251 of the Code, for the words Amendment of

article 251 of

"K, L,", there shall be substituted the words "K, KK, L,".

the Code.

Sub-article (1) of article 271 of the Code shall be amended Amendment of

article 271 of

as follows

the Code.

(a) paragraph (g) thereof shall be renumbered as

paragraph (h); and

(b)

immediately after paragraph (f) thereof, there shall

be added the following new paragraph

"(g) adding new forms or amending or modifying

any of the forms in Part II of the First Schedule to this

Code; and".

The First Schedule to the Code shall be amended as

(a)

in item 2 of Part I thereof, immediately after the

words "an act of marriage", there shall be added the words "or

civil union";

(b) in item 7 of Part I thereof, for the words "K, M",

there shall be substituted the words "K, KK, M,";

(c)

in Part II thereof, immediately after the Form K,

there shall be added the new form KK reproduced in the

Schedule to this Act; and

(d) in Part III thereof, immediately after the words

"where the marriage took place.", there shall be added the

following

"ACT OF CIVIL UNION

(a)

Date of the Act;

(b) Name and surname (wherever they may occur), date

and place of birth and residence of parties in the civil union;

(c)

Name and surname of father and name, surname and

maiden surname of mother of the parties in the civil union;

(d)

All the particulars of the witnesses;

(e)

The place where the civil union took place.".