ACT No. XXII of 2015 AN ACT to amend the Persons with Disability (Employment) Act, Cap. 210.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

24th July, 2015

ACT No. XXII of 2015

AN ACT to amend the Persons with Disability (Employment)

Act, Cap. 210.

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 Persons with Disability Short title.

(Employment) (Amendment) Act, 2015, and this Act shall be read

and construed as one with the Persons with Disability (Employment) Cap. 210.

Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

Immediately after sub-article (5) of article 16 of the Amendment of

article 16 of the

principal Act, there shall be added the following new sub-articles

principal Act.

"(5A) A person who fails to respect the quota referred to in

sub-article (2) and determined in accordance with sub-article (5)

shall be asked by the Corporation to make an annual

contribution of two thousand and four hundred euro (€2,400) for

every person with disability that should be in his employment,

to a maximum of ten thousand euro (€10,000) for any one

person who so fails to respect the quota.

(5B) For the year 2015, the person shall pay the

equivalent of one-third of the contribution, referred to in sub-

article (5A), which is to be paid; during the year 2016 the

amount of the contribution shall be increased to two-thirds of

the amount which is to be paid, and during the year 2017 the full

amount of contribution to be paid shall apply.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 291 of the

15th July, 2015.

Ċ ENSU G ALEA

Deputy Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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