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ACT No. XXVI of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Interpretation Act, Cap. 249, and for matters consequential or incidental thereto.
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
I assent.
M ARIE L OUISE
(L.S.)
C OLEIRO P RECA
President
1st August, 2014
ACT No. XXVI of 2014
AN ACT to amend the Interpretation Act, Cap. 249, and for
matters consequential or incidental thereto.
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 Interpretation
(Amendment) Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read and construed as
one with the Interpretation Act, hereinafter referred to as "the
principal Act".
Sub-article (1) of article 11 of the principal Act shall be
amended as follows
(a)
for the words "if, within the period of twenty-eight
days", there shall be substituted the words "if, on a motion
tabled within the period of twenty-eight days";
(b) for the words "the House resolves", there shall be
substituted the words "the House, within a period of sixty days
after the said laying, resolves".
Sub-article (2) of article 5 of the Petroleum (Production)
Act shall be deleted, and sub-article (1) thereof shall be renumbered
as the whole article.
Sub-articles (5) and (6) of article 4 of the Malta Armed Consequential
amendment to
Forces Act shall be deleted.
the Malta
Armed Forces
Act,
Sub-articles (2) and (3) of article 22 of the Savings Bonds Consequential
Act shall be deleted, and sub-article (1) thereof shall be renumbered amendment
to
the Savings
as the whole article.
Bonds Act,
Sub-articles (2) and (3) of article 24 of the Premium Bonds Consequential
Act shall be deleted, and sub-article (1) thereof shall be renumbered amendment
to
the Premium
as the whole article.
Bonds Act,
Sub-articles (6) and (7) of article 374 of the Merchant Consequential
amendment to
Shipping Act shall be deleted.
the Merchant
Shipping Act,
Sub-article (2) of article 8 of the Fertile Soil (Preservation) Consequential
Act shall be deleted, and sub-article (1) thereof shall be renumbered amendment
to
the Fertile Soil
as the whole article.
(Preservation)
Act,
Sub-articles (4) and (5) of article 7 of the Employers’ Consequential
amendment to
Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act shall be deleted.
the Employers’
Liability
(Compulsory
Insurance) Act,
Sub-articles (2) and (3) of article 4 of the Swimming Pools Consequential
(Control) Act shall be deleted, and sub-article (1) thereof shall be amendment
to
the Swimming
renumbered as the whole article.
Pools (Control)
Act,
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 to the House of Representatives